Is it bad to keep my host machines to be on for like 3 months? With no down time?

What is the recommend? What do you do?

  • horse-boy1@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I had one Linux server that was up for over 500 days. It would have been up longer but I was organizing some cables and accidentally unplugged it.

    Where I worked as a developer we had Sun Solaris servers as desktops to do my dev work on. I would just leave it on even during the weekends and vacations, it also had our backup webserver on it so we just let to run 100%. One day the sys admin said you may want to reboot your computer, it’s been over 600 days. 😆 I guess he didn’t have to reboot after patching all that time and I didn’t have any issues with it.

  • R_X_R@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Prod environments typically don’t have downtime. Save for patching every quarter that requires a host reboot.

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    10 months ago

    You can turn host machines off? Who knew.

    Seriously, mine only get switched off if hardware breaks or needs reconfiguring.

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    10 months ago

    Summer every day in the afternoon for heat and power usage (time of use bills triple from 3-9pm). Scripted to run on one host per site for must have apps.

    Winter - once a month for the weekend after patch Tuesday. It’s a chance to check for cables being nibbled/cleaning/other things needing doing.

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    10 months ago

    Only if I need to move it or upgrade the components, and that happens maybe once a year, if not less.

    If it weren’t for that and power outages, they would have been on for 5+ years.

    I don’t ever shut them down “just because why not”.

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    10 months ago

    I have built a UPS with 200AH 12V battery with inverter charger for RV. It never fails with power so it runs like for months until I decided to put something in… let’s see

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    10 months ago

    When do I shut down?

    1. When the power goes out and my UPS battery drains.
    2. When I do a hardware upgrade.
    3. If I want to rearrange equipment, and also when I moved this past summer.

    That’s seriously about it.

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    10 months ago

    I suppose it depends what kind of hardware you’re using. I have enterprise class servers that are meant to run 24/7 and they do. They’ll be useless technologically before they wear out.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t shut them down but I restart when I apply updates. Having a high uptime counter is not a badge of honor unless it’s a fancy HA system.

  • MacGyver4711@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I don’t reboot servers in my homelab unless any update require me to do so. I do have a clustered Proxmox setup, so no downtime if the admin (aka me) doesn’t screw up ;-)

    The only valid reason (imho) to reboot unless any update requires it would be apps with memory leaks where a service restart doesn’t fix the problem. Not often I face this problem these days, but earlier versions of Windows had the occasional habit…