posted in Selfhosted

Gekkonen@Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz

A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power

This website made me reconsider if 99.9999% SLA and always online is really that important for lots of websites. I used to self-host my own server in my own apartment, but gave up on that after my internet provider had their first major outage that lasted almost a week. Also I didn’t want to worry about the fire hazard, or the server going down when I was traveling etc.

But a solar powered server seems interesting, if the batteries could be made fire safe.

solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power/
phil@phil@openmic.social

Replying to @⁨Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz⁩

Interesting concept. I haven’t seen lowtechmagazine before, going to have to definitely check it out.

I spin down our development environments when they have sit idle for a period of time, not at all the same but makes me think deeper about the entire concept.

Update: This is a really cool website. I see some fun projects here too that I could have my kids work on!

Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨18⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨15:21⁩⁩en