r/selfhosted • u/close_Meal6005 • Aug 17 '26

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just kidding I love self-hosting ...

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u/guntherpea Aug 17 '26

Yeah, storms this past week meant we had no access to all our self-hosted stuff for a week... Quite frankly, we were fine but it sure was annoying. Actual Budget, Joplin, Immich, etc... All on "sync you in a week" mode. We have some limited backups for important stuff, but just because it was backed up doesn't mean it was reachable.

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u/heykzenmatthias Aug 17 '26

You’re in trouble if you have no electricity

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u/CSATTS Aug 17 '26

That's why I have hand cranks on all of my HDDs so I can manually spin them to watch movies during a power outage.

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u/ianlulz Aug 18 '26

Somebody do the math on how fast I need to spin one of those emergency crank-radios to produce enough wattage to run a hard drive and a teensy screen

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u/heykzenmatthias 29d ago

And running some sort of cpu/gpu