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?

  • R_X_R@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

  • horse-boy1@alien.topBEnglish
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    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.

  • TheStoicSlab@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I set up a cron job to reboot once a day. Its for my security cameras and I want to ensure access. But, if you dont have issues, you dont need to.

  • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I boot my big server whenever i need it, everything else is 24/7. I have had no catastrophic failures in either for the last 2-3 years, so it seems to be fine?

  • aorta7@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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).

  • Busy_Tonight7591@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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!

  • Cheesqueak@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    When I’m adding hardware or decide to blow out my pc equipment (which is way less than I should). I have dogs and cats and their hair gets everywhere.

  • hauntedyew@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Even though live kernel patching is a thing, I generally do a full reboot every month or two for the next big patch.

    Full shut downs? Are we upgrading them, dusting them, or doing any other maintenance to them? That would be the only case besides UPS failure or power outage.