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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[-] horse-boy1@alien.top 2 points 1 year 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.

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