Preventing sleep and suspension on a Debian server

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello,

A server must be available 24 hours a day and obviously should not go to sleep, especially if we don’t have the tools to “wake it up.”

By default, or following the installation of certain packages, a Debian distribution may retain power-saving settings. The result: our machine “falls asleep” after a period of inactivity, and we can no longer access it remotely. ¹

This is particularly true for systems installed in a Desktop version (i.e., with a desktop manager like GNOME or others).

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Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello,

I can now officially announce it: I have crossed the Rubicon of self-hosting—the act of hosting one’s own server(s) and/or Internet service(s) at home for ALL my Internet tools.

For several years, I had been experimenting and testing various solutions to host services on dedicated servers or directly at home. Some of my customers have used some of them.

I would regularly reopen the file as the anniversary date of my hosting contract approached for the email and web servers.

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Preventing sleep and suspension on a Debian server

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