Post #46012

2025-12-09 17:49 UTC

Lol the commenter you replied to didnt expect a one of a kind person to reply. Normal people don’t have a ginormous battery and a generator for when the power goes out. Every ISP is dogshit too. If it doesn’t go down from incompetence, it’s their physicial infra being broken from weather or some other “natural event”. Even then, I can’t justify paying their crazy rates for 5g backup year round just for it to kick in once or twice a year or a couple nights where I’m not awake anyways. Every email server that sends mail should have a rety mechanism if it fails to deliver too, so you shouldn’t miss any mail as long as your server isn’t offline for too long. Ofc you are allowed to need 99.99% uptime for your home server, just disagreeing that it’s a need for most of us (including me).

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@ysjet@lemmy.world 2025-12-09 18:00

I mean, my use case is abnormal and generally has more beef behind it than most people would have, yes, but a simpler, cheaper version of what I have set up is kind of a no-brainer if you want to self-host. e.g. I don’t think a simple cyberpower/APC ups on your home server is any kind of a weird ‘specialty’ thing, and it should definitely run your server for 2-3 hours during an outage for like $100-150 if you grab it on sale (which, you know, why wouldn’t you?) As for the generator, I don’t have that for my network stack, I have that for my fridge/deep freeze lol. It can just also recharge my UPS if it’s really that big of a deal. As for cell backup, that’s definitely less a ‘common’ homeserver thing, but I’m only paying like $14/mo for my cell backup connection from tello for 5gb of 5G. Hardly breaking the bank, and honestly probably overkill, you could likely get away with their $10/mo 2gb plan. No complaints with it either, I use them for my regular cell plan too. if you were interesting in self-hosting your own email server and wanted better uptime than 99.9%, you probably don’t even need that if your ISP only sucks slightly instead of mostly, but it allows you to just not care about your ISP having extended downtime.

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