h3ndrik

@h3ndrik@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently yes. I have a bit of a non-standard setup though. Like a business contract with my internet service provider, which includes a few perks that are required to send mail and are missing on a normal residential internet connection (static ip, dns reverse pointer). And generally 95% of people recommend not to do email yourself. I might change in the future. Back in the days it was a few bucks more a month, but they increased prices substantially. Either I move my mailserver to a VPS or save me some time and effort and switch to some email servuce like everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, the phone switches to mobile. It's just all the selfhosted services that are missing, like my nextcloud, matrix chat, etc. I don't use that many cloud services., so it'll be a lot of things I rely on. But I've changed things and moved the adblocker. So now that one issue is gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. All that stuff has consequences. I also used to run a DNS Adblocker on that machine. So after a power outage, all the lights in the kitchen and livingroom (those are the smart ones) would turn on at full brighness (their default state). The internet wouldn't ever come back since it's missing its DNS server. Obviously I can't get any notification of the incident, since my server is down... And I fall back to being reachable via phone or SMS. If my wife tells me via chat or email... That's down, too.

  I'm still working on a better solution. It ain't easy, though. It's certainly easier to use some cloud services and have other people keep the infrastructure running in some datacenters which have more redundancy... We have light switches, though. All my smart home stuff is just retrofitted. So we can still turn it off or on with the wall switches. I won't change that until I come up with a solution to this problem.

  And it's just some lights and the washing machine. While I am a nerd and tinkerer, I don't any reason to own a smart toaster, fridge or Alexa. YMMV, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely depends on the usecase. If it's a NAS and you only watch a few movies in the evening: Turn it off.

  I bult a fairly power-efficient server. Consumes less than 20W and spins down the harddisks if not in use.

  I can't turn it off because none of the lightbulbs in the house would turn on anymore, my website would go down, my Fediverse instance wouldn't pull any posts from American people who are awake during parts of the night. My emails and chat messages wouldn't get delivered.

  I don't have a UPS. Also depends on the circumstances. I use ext4 as a filesystem which is kind of robust enough to handle power outages. And they're rare where I live. A UPS would draw additional power and cost money. It's not worth it for me at home.