The little RPI home server has atlast given up the ghost. It seems SD card burn has destroyed the data and will boot no more. Ideally now, I would like to look around for a more robust solution to this ongoing problem. I have mentioned previously that I have a spare i5 pc waiting only for a storage drive. Ideally an SSD would be great to run a small web host but considering the secondary use of the computer ( network backup storage ) , an SSD is still impractical at this point.
I’ve been mulling over the problem of continuous uptime and again too have been snagged up at power usage. Now considering the time involved for bringing up the host and (its’) VM containers, might it be too enduring to boot it up and shut it down when not needed?
I may just resort to a VM on each device to serve a web host and use an external drive as storage for now.