My experience with using an UPS is that they have caised an outage every few years, which is more often than we get power outages where I live, so I didn't replace the batteries last time the UPS took down my server, and are just running straight from the wall. It might be better with a more expensive UPS, but it's not worth it for me.

I got tired of my network puking every time the power went out for 5 seconds.

Edit- My NAS really dislikes having the power cut off.

I sometimes have power outage in winter (snow storm, ice, etc) and working from home I need a UPS ; modem cable, router, PC, monitors, are on it, it can stand ~5h

it doesn't appear to

Nope it creates a little database, which you could manualy edit I suppose.

While technically the truth, it can be a hassle to make sure you restart all relevant services after updating a given library.

I just like being able to restart underlying system to take care of any possible straggler without thinking, and the services broadly be provided by multiple systems so the "experience" is starting up through a rolling reboot

My home generator is automatic but you still need an ups because the transfer switch and power on process for the generator isn’t instant. Takes like 10-30 seconds depending on how cold it is and how recently I serviced the generator.

You also ideally need a higher quality ups that can handle the shitty power coming from a generator, although the overall ups doesn’t need to be as “hefty” as a result. My ups is the kind that has extra filtering and stabilization of incoming power. My old ups was a cheaper cyberpower and it died after a few months of generator usage (we lose power here roughly every 4-6 weeks, thus the auto generator). The cheaper cyberpower would be fine in the majority of home circumstances tbh otherwise.

Battery should be automatic, but yeah not certain how quick the switchover is. At least you could go for the smallest capacity UPS there is as long as it can manage the wattage you are going with.

Pretty sure batteries can be set up for ups. One of the companies I worked for had part of the power for the building as ups. They used orange outlets to mark them. They constantly had to keep telling people not to overload it.

Not sure what your signature is supposed to do here but now I have 3rd degree burns and a fireball has engulfed my office wall

It's a giant hamster wheel connected to a generator I run in 😃

Anker have up to 3.8kWh stations, goals. This or Anker's equivalent of the Tesla Powerwall, wall-mounted energy storage.

a backup generator.

Hamsters on crack, noted.