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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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Sorry but like maybe dont host on an egress fee server if you cant control your egress wtf? It sucks but that's like a bit of a lack of foresight.......
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Latte macchiato blobcoffee ablobcat_longlong @privateger@plasmatrap.com
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@aetios even better are people hosting their stuff on autoscaling services like vercel

what did you EXPECT to happen ​:blobfoxgoinginsane:​
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@privateger Yeah like... yeah
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@privateger How I Ended Up Bankrupting Myself Over A Baidu Scraper
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Latte macchiato blobcoffee ablobcat_longlong @privateger@plasmatrap.com
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@aetios hey, but the website didnt go down even once! ​:ablobcat3dspinfaster:​
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@privateger fedi hosters need to get rid of the availability brainworms
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@privateger You're on the right side with your server crashing every 6 hours ​:cirno_laughing:​​
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Latte macchiato blobcoffee ablobcat_longlong @privateger@plasmatrap.com
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@aetios I also am fully on the own-hardware train ​:neofox_cool_fingerguns:​

The two are chugging along nicely next to my desk
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@privateger same, it's running nicely on my attic on an old ass i5 6600
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Hugh ✅ DHCP ➡️ eth0 @hugh@social.crablab.uk
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@aetios @privateger ++ mine runs on a Pentium machine (along with other stuff).

Has reasonable redundancy against power failure, but that's it. Server itself hasn't gone seriously offline in the 4 (5?) years it's been running so... (this is when the SSD dies ofc)

I'll upgrade it with more storage and RAM, but that's it.

More important stuff (NAS) runs on a Dell PowerEdge with decent RAID card.

Most problematic thing is the unstatic static IP from the ISP ​:blobrollingeyes:​
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@hugh @privateger I tried weeding through the forest that's UPSes a few years back but I just don't know what to expect from the numbers that are on the boxes...
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@hugh @privateger if the power goes out, my server dies, and if the power comes back, it tries to revive. That's all I got
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@aetios @hugh @privateger i was looking at some with regard to my router and hass box but holy shit i do not understand anything
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@jeder @privateger @hugh yeah what the fuck is a VA
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@aetios @privateger @hugh exactly
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aetios who is back in europe @aetios@sns.minovsky.space
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@jeder @privateger @hugh it's like a watt but like, NOT
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Hugh ✅ DHCP ➡️ eth0 @hugh@social.crablab.uk
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@aetios @jeder @privateger If someone knows why they use that unit I'd really love to know 😂
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Latte macchiato blobcoffee ablobcat_longlong @privateger@plasmatrap.com
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@hugh @aetios @jeder VA is apparent power, Watts are real power.
To get watts you also need to know the power factor and multiply the apparent power with it. The PF varies depending on the devices you're using, the PSUs of modern computers nowadays tend to be at >0.95 usually though. Old PSUs were as low as 0.6, so it does matter in some applications.

For sizing: just assume 1 VA = 1 W. That's not actually true, but its close enough.

The runtime can be read on the specsheet.
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Latte macchiato blobcoffee ablobcat_longlong @privateger@plasmatrap.com
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@hugh @aetios @jeder I run a Eaton UPS and it carries my two servers for around 20 minutes of runtime before they automatically shut down. Its plugged in via USB and my big server reads out the battery percentage / state.
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Hugh ✅ DHCP ➡️ eth0 @hugh@social.crablab.uk
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@privateger @aetios @jeder TIL - thank you!
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Bizcochito tlapkaHappy @MeDueleLaTeta@awoo.fai.st
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@aetios @jeder @privateger @hugh it is the sum of the actual power + reactive power. Since power supplies have coils and capacitos I guess is important (?
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