Comment on System Redundancy
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 week agoI have a multi wan SMB router. 945mbit throughput. $60 new.
TPLink omada or Ubiquiti tier stuff is all you really need for small business.
Comment on System Redundancy
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 week agoI have a multi wan SMB router. 945mbit throughput. $60 new.
TPLink omada or Ubiquiti tier stuff is all you really need for small business.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well…no, and this is what I’m saying.
Every downstream issue you try to solve with redundancy has a doubled and duplicate cost to it’s upstream. Internet links, load balancers for web services, and in this specific situation, UPS’s.
Throwing more servers at a homelab with no power is just wasting money without more UPS power in the mix. You have 4 servers, and want HA for everything on your network, expect to have two of everything, including UPS units.
This is the n* sunken cost of redundancy at its core, and in your example, you’re assuming this person even had a generator or whatever, but even if they did, they’d need an even BIGGER generator to run all this stuff.
That’s why my points deal with solving for what they have and making it work better than, instead, immediately jumping to adding more and more and more to the stack. It’s just not necessary when all they want is a graceful recovery to power loss.