I woke up this morning to a text from my ISP, “There is an outage in your area, we are working to resolve the issue”
I laugh, this is what I live for! Almost all of my services are self hosted, I’m barely going to notice the difference!
Wrong.
When the internet went out, the power also went out for a few seconds. Four small computers host all of my services. Of those, one shutdown, and three rebooted. Of the three that ugly rebooted some services came back online, some didn’t.
30 minutes later, ISP sends out the text that service is back online.
2 hours later I’m still finding down services on my network.
Moral of the story: A UPS has moved to the top of the shopping list! Any suggestions??
A lot of stuff on there isn’t worth buying either, like anything from APC. If you want good stuff, just get Eaton.
But also you have to understand that UPSes aren’t set and forget. The batteries need replacement every 3-5 years. And they’re not for extended outages, they’re mostly to bridge the gap between mains power going out and a generator starting up.
Personally I just have everything running from docker-compose, so I run one command and everything not running gets started. I don’t worry about stuff being down for a bit.
What’s wrong with APC? I have one for 6-7 years. I’ve changed the battery once and I think I’ll have to change it again this year. I didn’t have any problems with it.
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I present to you the holy hardware compatibility table:
https://networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html
Anything not listed there is not worth buying.
A lot of stuff on there isn’t worth buying either, like anything from APC. If you want good stuff, just get Eaton.
But also you have to understand that UPSes aren’t set and forget. The batteries need replacement every 3-5 years. And they’re not for extended outages, they’re mostly to bridge the gap between mains power going out and a generator starting up.
Personally I just have everything running from docker-compose, so I run one command and everything not running gets started. I don’t worry about stuff being down for a bit.
Eatons batteries are usually really simple to switch, see
https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/products/backup-power-ups-surge-it-power-distribution/backup-power-ups/eaton-5s-ups/eaton-5s-120v-user-manual-700-1000-1500-lcd.pdf
For me they are meant for allowing a graceful shutdown in a powerout scenario and to protect the hardware behind them from power surges.
What’s wrong with APC? I have one for 6-7 years. I’ve changed the battery once and I think I’ll have to change it again this year. I didn’t have any problems with it.
Trash software.
At least their service is good.