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What is your contingency for when the ISP goes down? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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In my ever-ongoing struggle to disentangle myself and my family from our corporate overlords I have gleefully dived into self-hosting and have a little intranet oasis available; media, passwords, backups, files, notes, contacts, calendars -- basically everything I needed the Big G suite for at one point, I'm hosting locally, and loving it. But Unfortunately... my ISP can be shitty. Normally its' fine and no complaints, but every now and then the network itself goes down for maintenance for a few hours, half a day, a day. When those outages happen even though I have a battery backup/generator, I'm basically stuck treading water, unable to even listen to podcasts. I'm wondering what the folks here' have as a contingency plan for these kinds of outages. Part of me is considering pricing out some kind of VPS for barebone, password manager, podcast player, notes etc for outages; but I haven't dipped my toe into that world yet. Just wondering what folks are doing/recommending/

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

so most of the time if your ISP goes down power is also out so cellular service might also fail because ether the power outage or high usage by useres using it as backup maybe Starlink? as it's not affected by your local power grid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never had a power outage where I live, but internet fails from time to time.

[–] pianoplant 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on the country / provider. Many cell companies provide battery backup & even gas generators

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just realised the residential package came with phone and tv so that probably makes up the price difference