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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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.
Never.
wait, they shut off? who knew.
Prod environments typically don’t have downtime. Save for patching every quarter that requires a host reboot.
Never? Only when they need physical maintenance
Only when I’m installing/removing hardware. Probably like once a year on average.
I have two hosts: raspberry pi that serves as a pi-hole and as a log of infrequent power outages, it goes 24/7, often with 100+ days of uptime (seeing the “(!)” sign in htop is so satisfying) and a SFF that shuts itself off nighty, provided nothing is happening on it (power is expensive).
… shutting down?
Only shut down for maintenance if hardware breaks. Otherwise reboots are done to update firmwares, esxi.
They have an off switch? who knew.
Most things stay up 24/7
I have a couple machines I don’t currently use for anything so they’re powered off until needed.
If it is a Windows 95 server then every three days. Format and reinstall once every three months.
Once a year for firmware updates. But my unraid box usually needs reboots once a month to stay stable.
Never! I have 2 mini pcs in separate locations running 24/7. One for downloading content, and running a DNS server/dynamic dns. The other for point-to-point VPN to access multiple NVRs that are blocked from the WAN itself. Luckily they both sip little power!
old 486 slackware 4.0 server I had on a big UPS made it through several dorm/apartment moves without a shutdown. Something like 7 years of uptime when I finally retired it.