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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/No-Needleworker-9890 on 2025-05-11 07:54:53+00:00.

Hi all,

the NVMe of my proxmox server died during my last vacation, so I couldn’t reach my VPN or apps.

It really stressed me out because all I had to think about was what had happened, whether someone had broken in, whether there was a fire, etc.

The hardware of my devices is also usually >5 years old, which means that a power supply unit failing etc. is not that unlikely.

But it also raised the question for me - what do you do on vacation? Do you leave all your IT running unattended for several weeks?

For peace of mind, I’m thinking about outsourcing the most important services to a VPS so that I can switch off everything that isn’t needed when I’m on vacation. But this leads to the dilemma that I don’t really want to upload my private data to a third-party server - the whole reason of doing selfhosting.