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How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts?

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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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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Germany.

I don’t. Can’t remember a power outage ever except for shorting our connection box :)

Besides that only some internet outages of our ISP but that is also very rare today.

Edit: At work we sell 750VAh to our customers which are usually very small in demand and workload

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CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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OP just needs a really long extension cord plugged into a German outlet.

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neeeeDanke@feddit.de
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for real, my homeserver in my appartment had an uptime of 450ish days before I had to power it down, because I wanted to plug in a power meter in front of it (don’t have anything fancy with redundant psus or something like that…).

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Another German here and yeah I also only had a single power outage (around 1h) in the last 5 or 6 years. Couldn’t even imagine having no power once every day or even every week.

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ErwinLottemann@feddit.de
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and mitigating internet outages is as easy as getting a 4 or 5g router as a backup.

i stresstest my ups once a year because it doesn’t get to work otherwise 😬

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