How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? - eviltoast

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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    1 year ago

    It’s not very cleanly built, and parts of it are hidden. But this shows the main parts.

    The black UPS on the left is the old one, not in use anymore.

    The silver inverter on the left feed a rail in my server rack.

    On the right is the battery and charger, and in the middle the fuse box and transfomer.