[Calzifer]

> Data centers are built with redundant network connectivity, backup power, and fire suppression. [...] The question is their relative frequency, which is where the data center is far superior.

Well, I remember one incident were a 'professional' data center burned down including the backups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVHcloud#Incidents

I know no such incident for some basement hosting.

Doesn't mean much. I'm just a bit surprised so many people are worried because of the server location and no one had mentioned yet the quite outstanding OVH incident.

[arjie]

I'm not going to pretend datacenters are magical places immune to damage. I worked at a company where the 630 Third Street datacenter couldn't keep temperatures stable during a San Francisco heatwave and the Okex crypto exchange has experienced downtime because the Alibaba Zone C datacenter their matching engine is on experienced A/C failure. So it's not all magic, but if you didn't encounter home-lab failure it's because you did not sample the population appropriately.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/wvqxs7/my_homelab_...

I don't have a bone to pick here. If F-Droid wants to free-ball it I think that's fine. You can usually run things for max cheap by just sticking them on a residential Google Fiber line in one of the cheap power states and then just making sure your software can quickly be deployed elsewhere in times of outage. It's not a huge deal unless you need always-on.

But the arguments being made here are not correct.

[Bridged7756]

Surely "Juan's home server in basement burns down" would make the headlines. You're totally right.