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How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by stafeel@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] rambos@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where are you from my friend? Why do you actually need server running if you have no electricity at home? Your internet is also down right? Dont you need to just find how to shutdown safely when outage happens? Or do you have mobile/sattelite internet as a backup?

I use candles btw 🕯️

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not OP but my fiber optic Internet is not on the same power grid as the rest of my house. I've got a battery backup on my routers and modem for exactly this reason. I've got a UPS to handle a power outage into automatic graceful shutdown at 33% remaining.

[–] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Same deal here.

Can keep my WiFi up and running for hours in a power outage, even when cell signal has dropped out. Server on a separate UPS shuts down at about 40%.

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That makes sense now, thx