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Availability issues (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by witx@lemmy.sdf.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi there,

I'm hosting matrix for family use on a server at my place. The issue is my home is affected by internet and electricity outages - which we're trying to fix. This means that there are frequent downtimes on the chat. I have a UPS but usually is not enough to power everything - router and server - for longer periods of time.

The internet downtime is easy to fix as my router supports fallback connection which I point to a mobile internet solution.

I've thought about moving everything to a VPS but then I'm a bit wary of privacy regarding the data there. There's also the option of moving the server to a family member's house but I want this this be last resort because that makes maintenance harder.

Anyone dealt with this issues and found a solution? Perhaps a fallback mechanism that temporarily hosts the sever on a VPS? :D

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

It may be simplest to move it to a hosted server. Depending on the length of outages, your comfort with electrical things, and your budget, you could get a bigger battery and use the inverter in the UPS (there are caveats-the inverter in the UPS is not rated for higher end of its load past the battery capacity it’s got and may burn itself out, and the charger may not work properly with the larger battery or with different chemistry), or get a battery/inverter box like a Ecoflow or that sort of thing. Solar may be a good bet too.

I don’t know about matrix but failing over between public IPs probably requires a HA sync of some type and also DNS failover.