I’m new to selfhosting and I find myself rarely using the server, only when I need to retrieve a document or something.
I was thinking of implementing something to make it power on, on demand, but I’m not sure if this might be harmful for the HDDs, and I’m not sure how to implment it if so.
What’s your recommendation to do so? I’m running a dell optiplex 3050
Wake on lan is fairly well tested, you can have a system that’s asleep, sees the packet and turns on.
You just have to wait until the computer completely boots before you can access your resource.
For good demonstration, moonlight and Sunshine do this very well. But you can implement it with many different programs
For SSDs, and NVMEs, turning on and off isn’t a big deal. For spinning discs, you would want to minimize the cycles, because that is the most mechanically taxing task they will do. You have to balance the power of keeping the disc spinning all the time, versus the cost of replacing the disc more frequently