Interesting. I've been in IT for over 30 years and have always used UPS systems. Never had data loss as a result of power issues. Also, it cleans the power a bit and I get a lot of life from my hardware. Plus, I dont have to worry at all, it works as intended. My entire lab has redundant UPS systems backed by a large generator ... Zero downtime is nice.
persiusone
joined 1 year ago
I think it comes down to how reliable or fast your internet is. You can selfhost a lot of stuff with reliable internet, power, and environmental variables.
If you have any of those which are less than reliable, a VPS like Linode may make sense for uptime.
My UPS systems have built in monitoring.
$1k wouldn't get me started for the electrical runs and cabinets for the hardware.