At Lopoco, what we do is make low power servers. A server is typified as a computer that's always on and provides a service to other computers, like web or email or database. The average server these days might use as much as 500 watts when idle. When busy, which is usually less less than 5% of the time, it might use more than 700 watts.

Lopoco servers achieve better than a 10:1 energy savings for the datacenter. An average Lopoco server uses about 25 watts at idle. And when fully loaded, it might use all of 60 watts. Yet, for most server applications, including web, email, file sharing, database and calendar, there is no noticeable difference in performance. If you're worried about how much energy your always-on servers are wasting, and costing, then give us a call.

At Lopoco, we really know low power. Our servers are very low power. And we focus on servers that make sense from a power consumption standpoint. Do you need a server for an embedded appliance application, but don't want to add another 500 watts to your power footprint? Look no further.

The power draw at the wall socket is the power you pay for. Many server vendors list one or two servers as low power or "power smart". But really, low power is not what they do. Chances are, their "low power" servers use near a hundred watts, just at idle. If you ask them how much power does their low power server use at the wall socket, they likely will not know. They might tell you it has a 300 watt power supply, or that it has a 65 watt TDP processor. But neither of those tells you what power it draws at the wall socket.

On our products page, all our servers are clearly marked with two numbers: one representing how much power it draws while at idle and the other representing how much power it draws under max CPU load -- at the wall socket -- which is the only number that matters. This second number typically represents the max possible power draw of the server. We get these numbers by testing our servers with an accurate in-line power meter ourselves: we don't take anyone's word for it or add up power draw claims by vendors for the components we use, so you can count on the numbers we quote as being realistic, reliable and repeatable.

Want to serve a web site with tens of thousands of page hits a day, but would not like to have to pay for 10,000 watts to run it? Or another 10,000 watts to cool it? We've got a solution for that.

While we specialize in LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP) servers, we will sell servers with no operating system installed or with Windows Server installed upon special request.