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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by thibaultamartin on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:39PM (#44840242)
Author here, indeed I didn't install a UPS. I've tried to keep my setup fairly minimal, and I'm consciously accepting that if there's a power outage my services will be down. I self-host exclusively for myself, not for others.

What I don't want though is a power outage putting my server offline while I'm on holidays, and not be able to access my services at all.

My ISP-provided router supports Wireguard, so I can use that to connect to my KVM and send the Wake on LAN packages.

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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by jabroni_salad on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:09PM (#44840552)
Out of curiosity, did you look through the BIOS options on your computer? Mine is much less capable than yours (it is a used mini-pc) but it has options to boot itself up upon resuming power.
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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by behringer on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:49PM (#44840959)
I use UPS for my internet and then remote access such as intel AMT will get you back into your systems if you've specced your hardware to have such features.
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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by ThePowerOfFuet on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:07PM (#44841698)
You REALLY should not expose AMT to the internet.
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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by behringer on Saturday August 09, 2025 @11:46AM (#44847416)
of course not, but you would vpn in, your router (or server behind your router but that may be more risky being able to get in if something fails) should run a vpn if you plan to use something like AMT.
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