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
    14·
    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
      1·
      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
          8·
          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.

          • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            Then I’d go that route. Here all is on RPies, alas not the NAS, but those disks are almost always in sleep mode.

            Small tip on the storage, go for a cheap SSD external (alie has a few for next to nothing), get at least 2-4, as reliability issues exists, but will show themselves within days or not. Only use rhe sd card to boot from, mount / from the ssd.

            1 RPi and an ssd can runa while on a small UPS. (Need to get me one as well)

            • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Not sure if I’m a fan of the “AliExpress SSD” recommendation. They’re badly built and unreliable, you won’t know what capacity you get, and they can be incredibly slow.

              Regular, known-brand SSDs have dropped so much in price and are very affordable at low capacities. That should be a much safer investment than buying heaps of most likely unusable drives.