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Do you turn your servers off when you leave home? What is your line of thinking on this? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I should have clarified I don’t mean for the day, I mean for a week plus.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Nah the whole point of my server is for running stuff I might want to access at any time

Anything I would be happy to choose to turn on and off probably ends up running on my desktop PC instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Exact same for me, but I worry about some random electrical or bios issue that can’t be controlled when I’m gone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Then you deal with it when you get back. Easy as that. If it is non-critical enough to turn off when you leave the house, then it is non-critical enough fix it later when you have time. Fixing software/bios/program errors are not time-sensitive.

Hardware now is EXTREMELY safe and it has to be tested against electrical surges, ESD events, and depending in the device, different temps in order to get CE conformity and UL ratings. There is a near-zero chance that it would cause a fire or something critical, especiallly because home servers typically are not under load most of the time.