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Do you turn your servers off when you leave home? What is your line of thinking on this? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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I should have clarified I don’t mean for the day, I mean for a week plus.

Edit: I left them on for a month. Bad thing about being encrypted is I had to have someone login.

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[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do it if I'll be away more than just couple of days. Some of my hardware is pretty old at this point and I'm just a little paranoid about the possible fire hazard. I'm sure it would be fine to leave everything running but no real harm in shutting it down either.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 7 months ago

That's my biggest concern as well! My biggest server is put together by random parts I had...