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

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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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
PSU	Power Supply Unit
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

UPSes aren't meant to keep things running for long periods of time.

If you're trying to keep things on for hours, you need a generator. Then the UPS just needs to keep things running until the generator comes online.

I suspect it'll be a lot cheaper to get a small generator than it would be to buy enough UPS and batteries to run things for multiple hours.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I have all of my important electronics (computers, entertainment center, network equipment) on CP1500PFCLCD. They're scattered around the house, so there are multiple CP1500PFCLCD.

...then there's a 22 kW gas generator that handles everything once it switches on.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I have an apc battery hooked up to it

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