You can probably find a decent APC UPS on facebook marketplace. Be prepared to buy a battery; I’ve used generics without any major issues.

…oh shit, the RAM is on fire.

The RAM. The RAM. The 🐏 is on fire. We don’t need no water let the mothefuxker burn.

Burn mothercucker, burn.

(Thanks phone for the spelling mistakes that I’m leaving).

From what I’ve read, they either need a static ARP entry OR whatever was stated in the third paragraph.

As @ott’s comment mentions, you can’t send unicast traffic to a machine that isn’t active on the network at that time. ‘Active on the network’ means different things to different devices though… to a Layer 3 device like your PC or a router it means ‘this device has talked to the machine at some time in the last 4 hours’ (depends on arp timeout), to a Layer 2 device like a switch it means ‘the switch has seen a packet with that source mac-address some time in the last 5 minutes’ (depends on mac aging time).

You state that unicast WOL works when the device has been turned on and then back off, but you don’t state if it stops working at some time after the machine is shut off. This works because the router (or the WOL-packet generating PC if in the same subnet) has an arp entry (4 hour timeout) and can create a packet destined for the correct machine, however the switch either knows the port the mac-address belongs to (WOL sent within mac aging time) or has already timed out that mac-address so it treats the unknown destination as a broadcast. Once the arp entry times out, the router (or PC) will fail to encapsulate the WOL packet since it has nothing to put in the dest-mac field.

To make this work you need to use broadcasts, there is no other reliable way. To make WOL work on a different network than where your server is connected, you need to use directed broadcast packets (unicast packets sent to broadcast address of remote network, properly configured remote router will allow the packet and send it as a broadcast on the intended network).

https://serverfault.com/questions/672160/wake-on-lan-unicast-is-not-working-why

(From your own post further down)

I guess my question would be what are your resources?

If it’s something that’s vital, my mantra is pay to have someone else professional host it.

I’ll pay the $10/year for Bitwarden.

Is the data super important to you?

Let someone else host it.

Bitwarden in the cloud.

Edit: Bitwarden paying the monthly/yearly fee to BW. I wasn’t implying trying to host it yourself in the cloud.

I tried setting up own tracks like a year ago and it sucked HARD.

Has the computer setup potion become any easier?

Done, though some of the questions were redundant or weirdly phrased.

Thank you for articulating what I was trying to get at with OP.

Will QNAP or Synology be enough for my needs and can I install custom software there?

Probably? Most likely yes, today. Next week 2 month / year when you decide to run something else or more, not so much.

I don’t really want to create hardware from scratch.

A desktop running NAS like software will work.

From another comment from op

I don’t want to hear the fans

You put a NAS under load and you’re gonna a hear fans.

I want something that turns on and off as necessary.

Run enough things on your NAS and it’ll never have the time to turn off.

I wish I could find out (at a later date) how the overall vote turned out.

Did the jury decide on 2 days vacation or the money?

Beat me to it.

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I knew I should’ve shown him Electro-Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer

AppleTV connected via Ethernet.

You’re chasing a unicorn with your requirements.

Slashdot. Ars. Bleeping computer. Ikeahacker.

https://www.isitdns.com/