So true, g0n. I just took down a rack I had at my house, and I think my power bill will drop by over $140USD each month! The 1U's alone kepth the whole household awake 'cept for me, I'm mostly deaf already. Most of those 5 rack and 2 desktop machines were there just as replicated failover servers, and their disks were mostly empty except when tar'ing nfs backups of each other. Not only do we abuse CPU cycles these days, we abuse watts and watts of power for less and less important purposes. We've since put the rep machines in the same colo (http://www.dataconnectla.com, highly recommended, 1/2 rack inc b/w & pwr for $330 / month!) with two separate 1mbit feeds from different second/third-tier providers. Consolidated the usage, too; even though we have the space, we're on four machines, not 12, now.