Homelab Resilience: Keeping My Self-Hosted Stack Running During Power Cuts

Running a self-hosted lab sounds exciting until your power goes out. My UPS barely lasts five minutes, which means every outage is a test of resilience.

At first, I lost containers and corrupted drives more times than I’d like to admit. But over time, I learned how to minimize downtime and data loss. I set up automated backups in TrueNAS, configured graceful shutdown scripts, and added a Redis-based state cache to help apps recover faster.

Now, when the power flickers, I know my systems will handle it gracefully. The limited UPS forces me to design as if I’m operating in unreliable conditions — a skill surprisingly relevant to cloud environments too.

Takeaway:
Homelab resilience isn’t about having perfect uptime — it’s about designing for failure. Even small home setups can teach you enterprise-grade lessons in fault tolerance.