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Cake day: Aug 23, 2023

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That’s impressive! In your experience, how does the lithium battery compare to a lead acid one?



Not a lot of critical services but I would absolutely need things like pihole.

Just realized, I can host the critical ones on the ARM device and the services which I can do without for some time can stay on the current server.


I agree. Its never worth the risk.

I think I’ll start with inverter + battery. Then add batteries in the future depending on my power needs.


I should probably clarify that the 8 hour ones are infrequent. Once in a month or two. But those are the days that are really annoying. The regular ones are like two hours a day or an hour at 3 different times in a day. All the other appliances are manageable but I have to shutdown my server every time.



It’s odd how people get used to the powercuts. It becomes a part of our lives.

Hadn’t thought of generators. But I feel those might be overkill for me.


Yeah, been looking into Pi’s and its alternatives. But with the external drives I think I’ll need a big powerbank or I’ve to DIY a ups


How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts?
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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