What is your contingency for when the ISP goes down?
What is your contingency for when the ISP goes down?
In my ever-ongoing struggle to disentangle myself and my family from our corporate overlords I have gleefully dived into self-hosting and have a little intranet oasis available; media, passwords, backups, files, notes, contacts, calendars -- basically everything I needed the Big G suite for at one point, I'm hosting locally, and loving it. But Unfortunately... my ISP can be shitty. Normally its' fine and no complaints, but every now and then the network itself goes down for maintenance for a few hours, half a day, a day. When those outages happen even though I have a battery backup/generator, I'm basically stuck treading water, unable to even listen to podcasts. I'm wondering what the folks here' have as a contingency plan for these kinds of outages. Part of me is considering pricing out some kind of VPS for barebone, password manager, podcast player, notes etc for outages; but I haven't dipped my toe into that world yet. Just wondering what folks are doing/recommending/
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If the internet or power goes out I read a book.
I’ll make sure to dot hat when I need access to my essential passwords during an internet outage. Thanks. Truly helpful beyond words.
That's one of the reasons why my essential passwords are in a KeePass file that gets synced to my primary devices. Even if I completely loose access to my servers/accounts/... I will still be able to access them.
Tbh I use Vaultwarden which does something similar. I technically have access to my passwords even if the service is down because I have an encrypted copy on the device. I can’t add to the database though, but it’s not just passwords that are baked into my daily life though. Having my podcasts and audiobooks self hosted is great - but let me totally out of sorts when inaccessible because the network goes down. Calendar, contacts, photos and notes are knocked out by an outage as well.
He has actually a point. You need access to your services for which purposes? As long as you are @home, you have access to your services (but those cannot reach outside). You can still browse your photos and likes.
If you are out, it's easier to get a copy of what you need on your device (e.g. passwords) than set up a backup internet connection. (IMO, at least)
The guy gave you a very valid answer. You asked what people do when the Internet goes out, not how they access passwords. No need to be rude
If it's self hosted, what do you need the Internet for? You host the master copy locally.
I know this is shocking to some, but I do occasionally need to leave the house. I rely on a fair handful of self hosted services when I’m out and about.
Why post an open ended question and then be a dick when someone answers?
It’s never too late to apologize.