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

I run ESXi on most of my systems. So that means, when there is an update of ESXi, I install the updates and reboot them.

Sometimes I need to change hardware or upgrade stuff. Then too.

I took my docker host offline yesterday, because of a RAM upgrade (16GB > 24GB, yeah, I'm aware I lost dual-channel). I regularly check for updates on non-ESXi machines.

Some people love 100% uptime of their servers. I hate it. When somebody has high uptime, it means they are lazy and don't keep up with updates, which are critical most of the time.

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