I just use a small UPS to make sure all data is written to the drives properly before the battery runs out.
Do you have power outages often? Even if I have one, my services can come up automatically without doing anything, when the power is restored.
Same. I have two small UPS. The first I connect to my computers and it lasts about 15 minutes. Enough for me to save/checkpoint whatever in a restorable way. The second I connect to the wifi router. This lasts for a while longer and it's pretty useful. In those 15 minutes local network still works. And if the power comes back in a minute or two (which happens more often than outages that last hours where I am), then I don't have to wait for the wifi routers painfully slow boot time.
Speaking of... does anyone know how to speed up wifi router boot time? Stupid thing takes 5 minutes almost.
> Speaking of... does anyone know how to speed up wifi router boot time? Stupid thing takes 5 minutes almost.
This is probably due to the access point having minimal hardware for the task, and it's startup not being particularly well optimised, so "buy a better AP/router" use likely the most practical answer.
As an alternative, you could buy a small device (perhaps a recent rPi model) with more umph (or add this task to an existing machine in your home lab setup), give it a wireless NIC if it doesn't already have one, and run hostapd to turn it into an AP. That might startup a lot faster.
> Speaking of... does anyone know how to speed up wifi router boot time? Stupid thing takes 5 minutes almost.
Maybe try using OpenWRT if your router hardware is supported
I would be happy with smaller/lighter UPS that will only provide 10 seconds of juice. I only purchased the thing because the lights in my apartment would flicker a couple of times a week.