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?

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    No one should be powering off their servers. Thats really not the way to go about anything. Now there’s nothing stopping you from doing that either if you want to and it makes you happy or your life easier.

    But if you want a simple answer to a simple question, no, nobody sane is doing that lol

    • BritishJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We power off servers in the enterprise all the time and on schedules 😂. Its called saving money.

        • BritishJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          In pretty much any enterprise using the public cloud. Everything is auto scaling, so shutdowns when not needed. Dev environments shutdown over night… If you’re not shutting down and scaling in the public cloud, you’re doing it wrong.