<![CDATA[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.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/topic/66960035-c731-4dc3-8488-f2f2f4ce3674/a-solar-powered-website-that-goes-offline-when-there-s-no-powerRSS for NodeSun, 06 Sep 2026 02:45:58 GMTTue, 18 Aug 2026 06:23:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:04:37 GMT]]>Oh for sure. Not everyone is cloudflare.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/28322352https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/28322352Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:04:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:10:56 GMT]]>Na, they are one of our customers.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25364406https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25364406Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:10:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:47:49 GMT]]>Slopbook?

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27660628https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27660628Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:47:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:47:02 GMT]]>Things like Cloudflare should have that.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27660608https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27660608Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:47:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT]]>Good news, I don't work for microslop.
Bad news, I work for someone worse... :(

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25357759https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25357759Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:08:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:37:40 GMT]]>I found the GitHub employee! 😉

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedinsfw.app/comment/2085847https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedinsfw.app/comment/2085847Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:37:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:37:25 GMT]]>Yes, there are some that do, I should have said that. But the number of orgs that need extreme uptime is so small compared to business that think they do need it but really don't.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25355978https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25355978Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:37:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:34:50 GMT]]>I agree, but the number of business that have actual need for extreme uptime is insignificant compared to the number of businesses that don't but think for some stupid reason they do.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25355948https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25355948Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:34:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:29:11 GMT]]>This actually cool.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27312371https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27312371Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:29:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:28:28 GMT]]>There are plentiful scenarios where 10 minutes of sequential downtime would be a critical issue. Say you're a telecoms or internet provider - even a one minute delay to a life-saving message can be enough for someone to die.

Furthermore, lots of things are interconnected now. Your business might be able to handle 10 minutes of downtime, but lets say my business relies on 12 different service providers like you, who each have 10 minutes of downtime during a week using your rationale. That could up being 2hrs of downtime each week.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/28308755https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/28308755Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:28:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:26:50 GMT]]>Appreciate the website itself, with it's dithered low-colour PNG illustrations.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.zip/comment/6660089https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.zip/comment/6660089Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:26:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:22:45 GMT]]>Use a gell cell lead acid battery (the kind that go in regular UPSs). No fire hazzard, ans bonus, they can survive freezing temperatures just fine if outdoors. Downside is replacing a cheap battery every 3 years.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/24879214https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/24879214Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:22:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:20:21 GMT]]>Many airports are closed at night.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.zip/comment/6660036https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.zip/comment/6660036Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:20:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:18:41 GMT]]>It's late summer now, best possible time to measure solar-powered uptime. Roughly 5 months, i.e. since mid March, i.e. springtime in Spain. Many daylight hours.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.zip/comment/6660021https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.zip/comment/6660021Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:18:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:52:41 GMT]]>

I don't even bother to track my home setup

I host home assistant and if anything goes down I'll notice pretty fast.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12551662https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12551662Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:52:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:48:21 GMT]]>All websites go offline when there is no power ...

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://ani.social/comment/18230904https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://ani.social/comment/18230904Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:48:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:42:01 GMT]]>garage is a software project made for communal home hosting. Tech literates will talk about its S3 API but that's the least interesting part: the most interesting is that it has been purposely built to be hosted on (actual) commodity hardware like second-hand nucs, running on flaky home power and internet and linked together through usual isps. Nodes may come up and down but the cluster withstands all of that.

Garage would be a pretty nice project to run a solar-powered mini-cluster. If sufficiently far from each other, you could even run without polluting batteries !

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/comment/4061149https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/comment/4061149Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:42:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:09:29 GMT]]>

Your business will not collapse because of 10 min of downtime a week, and if it does that is not technologies fault.

Hospitals? Air traffic control? Power grid operators? Like these are exceptional businesses, but they're out there.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://anarchist.nexus/comment/5097462https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://anarchist.nexus/comment/5097462Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:09:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:07:05 GMT]]>I didn't turn it down, so it's obviously up.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27652434https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27652434Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:07:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:06:23 GMT]]>I know this is a typo, but I'm sad Guthub isn't a food delivery company.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://sopuli.xyz/comment/25176971https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://sopuli.xyz/comment/25176971Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:06:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:02:12 GMT]]>The uptime looks better than GitHubs...

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://feddit.org/comment/14514270https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://feddit.org/comment/14514270Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:02:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:54:59 GMT]]>Schrödingers home server

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://feddit.org/comment/14514216https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://feddit.org/comment/14514216Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:54:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:51:04 GMT]]>My home server is 100% up, because I never check it and that's how it works, right?

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12551269https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12551269Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:51:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:09:29 GMT]]>Lithium-iron is about 2x more expensive, there might be different availability and energy use during manufacture is probably higher

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12384545https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://awful.systems/comment/12384545Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:09:29 GMT