Hi fellow hosters!
I do selfhost lots of stuff, starting from the classical '*Arrs all the way to SilberBullet and photos services.
I even have two ISPs at home to manage failover in case one goes down, in fact I do rely on my home services a lot specially when I am not at home.
The main server is a powerful but older laptop to which i have recently replaced the battery because of its age, but my storage is composed of two raid arrays, which are of course external jbods, and with external power supplies.
A few years ago I purchased a cheap UPS, basically this one: EPYC® TETRYS - UPS https://amzn.eu/d/iTYYNsc
Which works just fine and can sustain the two raids for long enough until any small power outage is gone.
The downside is that the battery itself degrades quickly and every one or two years top it needs to be replaced, which is not only a cost but also an inconvenience because i usually find out always the worst possible time (power outage), of course!
How do you tackle the issue in your setups?
I need to mention that I live in the countryside. Power outages are like once or twice per year, so not big deal, just annoying.
My old server is a HP Microliant.
What I love about it, is it turns back on automatically after a power out.
I don’t know what magic is in there, but the power goes out, as it can at times, and when power is restored, the old girl just starts up again.
I’m travelling at the moment, and have it at my parents house under a desk. It’s been there over 1.5 years and haven’t had to have anyone physically touch it.
When it eventually dies, the next machine will definitely have to have that feature.
That’s often a BIOS setting.
Any PC can do that, it’s called “status after power off” or something like that.