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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)

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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] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I do it if I'll be away more than just couple of days. Some of my hardware is pretty old at this point and I'm just a little paranoid about the possible fire hazard. I'm sure it would be fine to leave everything running but no real harm in shutting it down either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

That's my biggest concern as well! My biggest server is put together by random parts I had...