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What is your contingency for when the ISP goes down? (ttrpg.network)
submitted 1 year ago by Gutless2615@ttrpg.network to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cheap and cheerful 4G plugged into my Proxmox server, mapped to a secondary WAN interface for OPNsense.

I ain't gaming over it, but I will be connected.

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

Seems like the way to go

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 4 points 1 year ago

I think I pay (here in Aus) 95 bucks for 30GB of data, which has a 1 year expiry.

A month out, I turn on a specific firewall rule on OPNsense to force my Usenet traffic over it. I usually eat up the balance in a day or two, at which point I disable the rule again, and top up the data for another year.

$95 for a year of 4G backup capability ain't bad. What I haven't done yet is setup my OPNsense rules so that the heavy traffic doesn't route over 4G in the event of an outage. I really only want it so I can browse the internet, access email, etc.

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