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?

  • @[email protected]English
    7•5 months ago

    It all depends if you actually nerd those services 24/7

    I dont need DHCP or DNS from 1am to 6am for example

    • HandlesEnglish
      12•5 months ago

      “Do I need them? No, but I nerd them, so they stay up!”

      A most relevant typo 👍

    • @[email protected]English
      4•5 months ago

      You may not but your phone will fail over to data if it loses its lease and stuff like background update tasks will cease to function (like Windows Update or dnf cron)