We both setup servers at about the same time a few years ago and shared with each other. I’m sure once the dust settles someone will pull the he plug on his server and it’ll be offline for good.

Watching School Of Rock on his server one more time while I can.

Edit: his server is officially offline now. Rest in peace.

    • Neil@lemmy.mlEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      I’ve always thought about writing a script that wipes the drives on my server if I don’t check in once a month, but I’d inevitably forget to check in one month and be screwed.

      • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        Instead of wiping, just encrypt and write a script to shut down if you don’t sign in within x amount of time. That way you won’t lose your data if you’re not able to sign in for some reason other than death.

        • Neil@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not sure why I didn’t think of that. Doh! That’s the best way to go about it for sure.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        There used to be email lists where if you didn’t respond every few weeks or so it would send out to people.

        I bet that led to some rough days.

    • dmoonfire@kbin.social
      17·
      1 year ago

      I wrote a little garden plot called Exit Planning which was my initial plans for how to take over after I die. The end result is a sealed folder in a file cabinet that my partner knows to look at. In there, I have a page on my servers: contact information about who to handle administration/takeover, how much it costs, and what I would like to be done with it.

    • Wojwo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I have an agreement with two of my buddies that one of them will take my server and maintain it for my family if something happens to me, and I will do the see back.

    • Feliberto@programming.devEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      How do you prepare against it?

      Even if I explain to my wife what to do, there’s no way she’ll do it. I don’t have any friend capable of running my server.

      I guess that’s how everyone finds I died.

    • Tandybaum@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Same. Mine is pretty automated but the second the power blips she isn’t going to find the power button and I’m sure the NAS will eventually get tossed in a box.

    • Tandybaum@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! He was a good dude who loved music so I thought it would have been fitting.

      Still in shock.

  • SMITHandWESSON@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    Sorry for your loss. Definitely keep some movies loaded on your server for him in case they have a plex server in the sky

  • keeb420@kbin.social
    111·
    1 year ago

    My condolences. But is that something you think the family would give You since you it was a shared hobby.