I live in a part of the world where powercuts are pretty frequent. 1 per day is normal. They last between 1 and 8 hours. A day without powercuts feels like a special occasion.

My machine is powered by a desktop ups which is terrible. It is only supposed to power everything for a few minutes to shutdown safely. But it is cheap and I don’t know much about other affordable alternatives.

How do you folks who self host at home deal with powercuts? Any recommendations? 8 hours of uptime from a ups sounds almost impossible or totally unaffordable to me.

  • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can you migrate, or setup failovers, to a low powered ARM device? Or one the new Intel N series e.g. N100 low power devices?

    If not, you’re going to need to buy/build a fairly large battery bank.

    • stafeel@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, been looking into Pi’s and its alternatives. But with the external drives I think I’ll need a big powerbank or I’ve to DIY a ups

        • stafeel@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Not a lot of critical services but I would absolutely need things like pihole.

          Just realized, I can host the critical ones on the ARM device and the services which I can do without for some time can stay on the current server.