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Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? (f)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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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?

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[–] BritishJ -3 points 4 months ago (14 children)

In pretty much any enterprise using the public cloud. Everything is auto scaling, so shutdowns when not needed. Dev environments shutdown over night... If you're not shutting down and scaling in the public cloud, you're doing it wrong.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I see where your head is at here, but it sounds like you're focusing on containerized items. A lot of people are going to look at you real weird if you think of scaling down a container as equivalent to shutting down a server. We can all see where your mind is going and there is logic there, but it's more akin to closing chrome when you're not using it than it is to shutting down the computer running chrome.

[–] brygphilomena 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Even physical hardware, if your paying power you can have clusters of physical hardware power up and down based on usage. There is no point in having 10 physical hosts running when the workload for n+1 means 3 servers overnight. With bnc, ipmi, ilo, idrac it will power them up as needed.

[–] BritishJ -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Finally someone who gets it.

[–] brygphilomena 3 points 4 months ago

Yup. I run those kind of clusters. But unless your in home datacenter territory, that sort of config isn't likely to happen in self hosted.

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