How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts?
from stafeel@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 11 Sep 2023 17:21
https://lemmy.ml/post/4762810
from stafeel@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 11 Sep 2023 17:21
https://lemmy.ml/post/4762810
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.
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I actually built my own 2 kWh battery setup after finding available commercial UPS overpriced.
It took some work and cost me about 2000 euro, but now I run everything (including networking, servers and monitor) directly on a battery feed DC net in my house.
It’s pretty cool too have all IT equipment unaffected by a power outage.