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.

  • TheButtonJustSpins
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    1 year ago

    Do you have access to a gas-powered generator? A UPS could keep you up long enough to cut over.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      1 year ago

      I’m against fossil fuel solutions, a UPS is good if you have daily shorter outages. A quality server-grade UPS is pricey, but can last you much longer.

      The best solution, and this is an investment, but would be solar. Tbh if you have power outages that often and you own your place, then I would be seriously looking into solar+wall battery. It would fail over automatically.

      We know nothing about your location/usage OP so it’s hard to make recommendations. But if it were me and my equipment in your scenario, I’d go full solar.