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What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. (thelemmy.club)
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The mouse did not survive interrogation.

Also mouse not pictured.

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[–] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Had a zyxel nas that got unresponsive after 10-15days of uptime, thankfully it hat a scheduled shutdown/reboot setting. Runs since 2014 with a reboot every Mondy 3am.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Heh, my router is on one of those timer plug things. No matter how frozen, it will reboot.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I've got an extra and don't know what to do with it. I feel like its bad to pull power unexpectedly once a week though. Especially with a single HDD storage setup. I'd like to setup a RAID config, but its a 28TB drive and additional drives would cost me about $$$$$$$.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I have a NAS that had a similar problem, every week or two it would stop responding. From the logs it was clear that the machine was running fine after going non-responsive, but either the NIC or something else network related was crashing. However, the logs weren’t capturing the exact issue. I wrote a script to ping Google every 10 minutes, write a bunch of debug data to disc if it failed, and then reboot.

    And it has never happened in the year since. I have no idea what the root cause was, but sending those pings out seems to have fixed it.

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