A cheap backup VPS for when a home server goes down
Running more services at home can reduce software spending, but it also makes outages more painful. If the main stops working for any reason, important services may become .
A cheap VPS could hold backups of only the critical services, so they can be switched over during a failure. Large media services such as Plex are outside the goal; the focus is a small emergency fallback for essentials.
Key points
- More services make server downtime more serious.
- The goal is to back up only critical services to a cheap VPS.
- The backup VPS would be used as a fallback if the main server goes down.
- Large media backups, such as Plex , are not part of the plan.
- owners should think about which services need an off-site fallback.