I should have clarified I don’t mean for the day, I mean for a week plus.

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Why would you leave your home?

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Right, that’s where my server is?!

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With WFH and grocery delivery I only have to leave for dates and let’s be honest here…

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I’m sure your lovely and you have your own server, what’s not to love?

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The real question is always in the comments.

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Nah the whole point of my server is for running stuff I might want to access at any time

Anything I would be happy to choose to turn on and off probably ends up running on my desktop PC instead

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Exact same for me, but I worry about some random electrical or bios issue that can’t be controlled when I’m gone.

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Then you deal with it when you get back. Easy as that. If it is non-critical enough to turn off when you leave the house, then it is non-critical enough fix it later when you have time. Fixing software/bios/program errors are not time-sensitive.

Hardware now is EXTREMELY safe and it has to be tested against electrical surges, ESD events, and depending in the device, different temps in order to get CE conformity and UL ratings. There is a near-zero chance that it would cause a fire or something critical, especiallly because home servers typically are not under load most of the time.

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I bought a Portable Power Station (e.g. Anker SOLIX C300) to use as an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for my homeserver (~ 40 Watt) to buy me - or better my utility company - a few hours in case the power fails.

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No, otherwise the security cameras wouldn’t record and that’s precisely the opposite of what I want when I’m out.

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My server exists to run programs around the clock, including backups for live sites, so turning them off wouldn’t be appropriate.

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What’s your plan when you leave town?

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I don’t have one. It’s just a tiny single board computer and an HDD running reasonably stable scripts every few hours and a couple of small server programs. Nothing it’s doing is critical, so in the rare case when something breaks, it stays broken until I fix it.

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That’s sounds very low risk!

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This is a confusing question since wouldn’t you want vpn access and wouldn’t one of your servers provide that?

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What?? I didn’t mentioned vpn access.

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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.

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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.

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