My spouse and I work at home and after the first couple multi-day power outages we invested in good UPSs and a whole house standby generator. Now when the power goes out it's down for at most 30 seconds.
This also makes self-hosting more viable, since our availability is constrained by internet provider rather than power.
Yeah we did a similar thing. Same situation, spouse and I both work from home, and we got hit by a multiple day power outage due to a rare severe ice storm. So now I have an EV and a transfer switch so I can go for a week without power, and I have a Starlink upstream connection in standby mode that can be activated in minutes.
Of course that means we’ll not have another ice storm in my lifetime. My neighbors should thank me.
We had a 5 day outage last year, got a generator at the tail end of the windy season and made exact same jokes.
A year later another atmospheric river hit and we had a 4 hour outage. No more jokes.
Make sure to run that generator once every few months with some load to keep it happy.
Well, it's an EV with a big inverter, not a generator, but I get your point. And I do periodically fire it up and run the house on it for a little while, just to exercise the connection and maintain my familiarity with it in case I need to use it late at night in the dark with an ice storm breaking all the trees around us.
Thanks for taking one for the team.