I believe this is a slightly controversial topic, at least from what I have gathered so far. Some say its best to leave the server on to spare the life time of the spinning rust. Other seem to prefer to save power and boot the server off each night. So wanted to chip in and hear what folks here do and why do what you do.

Bonus question; Do you guys have a UPS? Is it a must have for a homelab, or does it just depend on the usecase?

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
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    1 month ago

    when i had only the file server, i turned on via WOL each time i actually needed it and a script shut it down if there was no activity after 11pm

    now i host so much stuff and i’m so dependant on it that it requires redundant power and failover WAN via 5g…