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.

  • johntash@eviltoast.org
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    1 year ago

    Most desktop ups are more meant to give you time for the machine to shut down (hopefully automatically) vs actually running them for n extended period of time.

    Do you have anything that would still be using the server when the power is out?

    It’s not really answering your question, but are solar panels or a backup generator possible in your area? A long power outage like that everyday would be really annoying

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      1 year ago

      It’s odd how people get used to the powercuts. It becomes a part of our lives.

      Hadn’t thought of generators. But I feel those might be overkill for me.