I should have clarified I don’t mean for the day, I mean for a week plus.
Why would you leave your home?
With WFH and grocery delivery I only have to leave for dates and let’s be honest here…
This is a confusing question since wouldn’t you want vpn access and wouldn’t one of your servers provide that?
You didn’t mention it directly, but if you want to access any of your hosted services remotely, you will almost certainly want some kind of VPN solution. I host a few things over HTTPS, but there’s no way I’m exposing anything critical directly to the internet.
Yeah I do do that as well :)
I’m just worried that something goes wrong hardware wise or bios wise and I can’t turn it off or it causes a house issue.
- Never put network connectivity on server-class hardware. Low-power devices exist for this reason. Use them.
- If you need to access your information remotely when you’re away and it’s running on server-class hardware. Don’t. It’s a needless waste of power.
- If you’re talking about accessing your porn collection when you’re on vacation. Don’t. Enjoy your vacation.
I suppose it depends on your use case, but I would disagree with points 1 and 2. Network connectivity has an effect on your entire network and is absolutely crucial. Pfsense/OPNSense, DNS, etc should always be on server-class hardware. I run these as VM, but I would argue that best practice is to have them on their own bare-metal server-class hardware. File storage is also incredibly important, and even with backups, I don’t want my NAS going down. It also runs on server class-hardware.
The two items you mentioned are the two items I would be least comfortable running on consumer-grade hardware.
stuff on ulv soc hardware i just leave on 24/7. those are < 10w or so each with a load, so nbd.
anything i want to be able to get at remotely also stays on, obviously, as does anything required for the internet access and routing to get to it.
everything else is stuff that even gets shut down at bedtime unless it’s “doing something”.
everything gets shutdown and unplugged if i am going out of town for more than a weekend and have no need for anything to be on. which has happened a whole one time in the last 25 years.
So if you need to have access to files or containers but will be gone more than a weekend would you shut it down and take files with you, forget the container servers, or leave them going?
if that ever happens, i’d cross the bridge then. but i’d probably shut everything down. if i’m in ‘vacay’ mode and not at home, i wouldn’t care about connecting to stuff at home. if i’m in ‘work’ mode, i’m taking shit with me i might need or putting it on space at the office before i leave.
i don’t have what some would consider ‘vital’ services running. like alert notifications systems for various ‘detectors’ (co, power, flood, fire, etc), security cam recordings, and what not.
