Yeah, I’m amazed I haven’t had a need to upgrade yet.
I personally just use an old desktop (4th gen i7, yeah that old) and a NAS (mostly for bulk storage seperated from the server). The device you listed is probably more than enough to handle everything, unless you’re sharing Nextcloud and/or Plex with a bunch of people.
Have you looked into an actual NAS rather than a mini-pc though? It’ll give you more storage upgradeability over a mini-pc, and a quality NAS could probably host everything.
I would also consider buying used, especially first starting out. You can save some money buying a model year or two older hardware for decent savings.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll definitely look into this more.
I don’t think an additional UPS is really necessary here. I do have switches to other parts of my network, but they’re just for TVs and game consoles, so I don’t really think a UPS is needed there.
It’s mostly a failsafe so I can poweroff my NAS properly rather than corrupting data. Since my server and router are on the same power strip, it makes sense that they’re all on the UPS since they’re the 3 main items interacting with each other.
Something with NUT as [email protected] mentioned might be a good option so it can send alerts when it’s activated. I’ll have to research that more.
Edit: figured out how to mention other users.
Thanks for breaking it down like this. This made it alot easier to understand.
I didn’t realize APC was going that route. I wanted to vomit after I saw what came up on Google.
I don’t want a UPS to connect to anything outside my network. Pretty much goes against the principle of selfhosted.
Can’t argue with science.