meldrik

Say ww3 kicks off and power goes off - how are you keeping your servers up? Solar panels and batteries?

My servers run on a power station and then solar panels with a battery.

What if there’s a biblical flood and you dont have the means to build an arc? All your servers are destroyed beyond repair?

I have a boat.

What if you heard the Feds are coming to cart you and your servers away cos they suspect you of bad mouthing Emperor Tromp?

Don’t live in the US. Servers are encrypted and backed up off-site.

What if theres a war and Luxembourg (you know, the enemy) let’s of an EMP pulse that kills your servers and all the infrastructure (power, internet…). How do you access all those cherished pics on Immich?

It takes A LOT for an EMP to fry electronics. The most important pictures can be printed. Already have a lot of albums. Some of my pictures is stored on discs.

In an apocalypse or an emergency, none of this stuff really matters though. You are better of making sure you have enough food, water and shelter. In almost any event, your servers are just going to sit there, waiting to be turned on again, when hopefully everything is back to “normal”.

Start with experimenting on your own computer. You can install Docker and setup Lemmy fx. Any reason you can’t keep your computer running?

There’s only IONOS with their £1 and £2 server: www.ionos.co.uk/servers/vps

It’s the Allpower R600: iallpowers.eu/…/allpowers-r600-portable-power-sta…

It does do actual passthrough and I also measure wattage directly from the outlet.

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From top to bottom:

• Allpower Power Station (UPS with around 4 hours of battery)
• Unifi gateway
• Unifi switch
• Unify CloudKey (Surveillance)
• Patch panel
• 1.5U media server
• Arock Mini running stuff like my Lemmy instance and other self hosted software.

I’m planning to move my Lemmy instance to its own 1.5U.

The whole setup uses around 80-100 watts.