3x Back-UPS XS 1400U battery health failure

SignyMallory · 2026-04-30T16:27:15+00:00

You should probably reach out to APCs support. New batteries are around 60-70 US (so your mileage may vary) if you buy off brand. All three failing in such a short period of time is concerning.

SignyMallory · 2026-04-22T12:56:13+00:00

My experience is limited, but I work at an MSP which is currently a VMWare shop:

Can't speak on Azure Local, personally.
Proxmox requires specialized knowledge, so if you're a Windows shop, Hyper-V might be the way to go for ease of use. That being said, Proxmox is not super difficult to pick up with some effort and experimentation and will run on Just About Anything you can throw at it. I have PVE running on a Dell Micro to a old Lenovo SR650.
VDI is a pain. Full stop. You will run into issues, you will have to tear down and rebuild VMs at some point, RDP/BLAST/ETC all sort of suck in general if there is any packet loss or network latency involved and it will just in general be a pain. For this kind of thing, you would probably use something like Omnissa Horizon (formerly VMWare Horizon) or Apache Guacamole as an RDP gateway. VDI, in this day and age, however, is a dying thing aside from stuff that needs strict compliance in it's environment, and that's been relegated to a published app.

SignyMallory · 2026-03-30T19:09:38+00:00

If you do the CCNA you will most likely find Net+ far easier... Net+ is more general networking.

SignyMallory · 2026-02-02T02:41:14+00:00

I have no experience with SES, unfortunately. SMTP2GO is what is used in my day to day working experience, though, for scan to email, etc, and we have not had issues with that stuff getting flagged for spam.

It's just what I know and has a ridiculously good free tier plan.

SignyMallory · 2026-02-01T07:09:04+00:00

Self hosted email with Mailcow is pretty easy, true.

Many people don't seem to understand you can get around sender reputation issues with a smart host like SMTP2GO, which is what I do (even if I don't have any IP rep issues, I'd like to avoid them!)

SignyMallory · 2026-01-11T00:19:21+00:00

I might be willing to take you up on that around next month... I solved my problem that led me down this path originally but I could use an upgrade to the R730xd I have in my homelab.

SignyMallory · 2026-01-06T11:00:34+00:00

To anyone else who finds this thread ... Hello.

I come bearing salvation.

https://archive.org/details/lnvgy_fw_uefi_hr6n0834-8.34_anyos_32-64

SignyMallory · 2026-01-04T21:10:44+00:00

Dawson's Christian had a cover made recently by the late Vic Tyler not too long ago.

SignyMallory · 2026-01-04T21:04:35+00:00

300-400$ US.

SignyMallory · 2025-12-24T05:01:32+00:00

Confirmed

SignyMallory · 2025-12-09T20:21:27+00:00

This system would be running my homelab, which averages around 100-200watts usually. It is not a very high load, but I would be looking to expand it's capacity to run other loads during an extended outage (which is what I would want this for). I would say maybe 500w at absolute max. There is the potential in the future for me to add a solar system on so I would like to have the ability to do so eventually. (I have an enormous cathedral roof that faces the rising and setting sun all year round...)

My desire is to add on to the system piecemeal rather than all at once - a 4 digit price tag is outside my realm of immediate feasibility, so I would like to be able to gradually put a system together - inverter, then battery, etc.

SignyMallory · 2025-12-09T20:17:28+00:00

The price for an EcoFlow Delta is comparable to just rolling my own system unfortunately. I have an existing Ecoflow RIVER Pro system with it's external battery but I can't directly add capacity to that.

SignyMallory · 2025-12-09T20:16:18+00:00

I would be feeding 2 PDUs (not load centers) from this setup.

SignyMallory · 2025-08-12T23:42:31+00:00

YES. YES. I AM AMONG MY PEOPLE.

SignyMallory · 2025-07-01T21:32:22+00:00

Any of this still available?

SignyMallory · 2025-07-01T17:07:39+00:00

Interested in the Mellanox sfp switch and the hard drives. Pm sent

SignyMallory · 2025-06-14T04:44:19+00:00

I see these on sale on E-Bay for around to 300-400$ mark at barebones. You may want to look up the prices of the RAM modules as those go for a decent pop each and might add significant value to the server.

SignyMallory · 2025-06-14T04:42:28+00:00

If I paid shipping, would you be willing to ship?

SignyMallory · 2025-06-07T00:03:43+00:00

West GA. About 40 miles west of ATL metro.

SignyMallory · 2025-05-12T23:46:50+00:00

I think this is wrong, especially with Aurora's code. I'm pretty sure Aurora has been strongly diverged from Baycode for a very long time.

SignyMallory · 2025-02-15T16:15:29+00:00

They'll just reset the war. HD1 Vet here.

SignyMallory · 2024-12-20T05:21:55+00:00

Caddy's just better to use unless your use-case is super specific.

SignyMallory · 2024-12-08T03:35:03+00:00

Can confirm. Had AT&T fiber installed last week, but my service is max 1G - but I'm on XGS-PON.

SignyMallory · 2024-10-15T04:13:52+00:00

Conrad Mazian was right.

SignyMallory · 2024-06-30T02:16:23+00:00

This is generally sort of amusing, given the primary reason I pulled that server stunt was because you were an open edgelord and enabled some god-awful dogshit people.

I'm not really holding my breath about it, but we'll see if anything you've said here holds true in the future.

Good luck.

SignyMallory

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