UPS
Small Office Monitoring: The 12 Checks That Catch Real Outages
A small-office monitoring guide covering WAN, DNS, DHCP, router health, captive portals, APs, PoE, UPS, local services, backups, and alerting.
How to Monitor Home Fiber: ONT Signals, Optical Power, and Failover
Monitor FTTH from the customer side using approved ONT status, Ethernet and router counters, latency and loss baselines, full-path UPS coverage, and controlled failover tests, then turn the results into useful ISP evidence.
One UPS, Many Devices: NUT Shutdown for Proxmox, NAS, Router, and Docker Hosts
A practical NUT architecture for coordinating clean shutdown across Proxmox, NAS, Docker hosts, and network gear from one UPS.
UPS Buying Guide for Home Servers: Runtime Is Not the Main Point
A practical UPS buying guide for home servers, NAS devices, routers, and homelabs focused on clean shutdown, sizing, USB signaling, and battery maintenance.
Closet NAS Maintenance: Check Heat, Dust, Power, and Drive Health
A NAS is a small server, and closets are often bad server rooms. Check airflow, power, alerts, disks, and restore paths before it fails quietly.
What Should Happen to Your Homelab During a Power Outage?
Plan outage shutdown by dependency: stop applications and VMs before their storage, and preserve the signaling network until shutdown finishes. Restart after stable power with networking and storage ready first.
How Much Does a Homelab Really Cost in Electricity?
Estimate homelab electricity costs from representative energy use and the applicable tariff. Define the meter boundary so networking equipment, storage and UPS losses are counted once rather than overlooked or duplicated.