I woke up this morning to a text from my ISP, “There is an outage in your area, we are working to resolve the issue”
I laugh, this is what I live for! Almost all of my services are self hosted, I’m barely going to notice the difference!
Wrong.
When the internet went out, the power also went out for a few seconds. Four small computers host all of my services. Of those, one shutdown, and three rebooted. Of the three that ugly rebooted some services came back online, some didn’t.
30 minutes later, ISP sends out the text that service is back online.
2 hours later I’m still finding down services on my network.
Moral of the story: A UPS has moved to the top of the shopping list! Any suggestions??
A UPS should always be your first or second purchase if only for power conditioning and brown-out protection.
You should buy a UPS if those things are concerns for you. If not, then don’t.
They will do power conditioning? My modem is such a sensitive baby I cannot plug anything else in next to it or it starts dropping packets. Would a UPS help with that? Unfortunately I cannot replace the modem, that’s the only one the ISP will give me.
Yes. An online/double-conversion UPS will be the most effective, because it actually runs off the battery the whole time, so it’s disconnected from any line quality issues.
A line-interactive UPS is cheaper, but doesn’t do full power conditioning.
An offline UPS doesn’t do any at all, only comes online when power drops.
https://community.fs.com/article/line-interactive-vs-online-vs-offline-ups.html
FYI Few downside of an online/double conversion UPS will use extra power if that is something your trying to avoid.
Also some of them will have a 24/7 fan so there will be extra noise.