How often are you shutting down your hosts? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by theguy_win@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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?

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[-] cll1out@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

My Proxmox VM host ran for well over a year and I had to shut it down to add more RAM when I finally bought it. A couple VMs on it ran for just as long. All Linux stuff. Windows guest have to reboot minimum every 90 days or things start getting weird, just a DC

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