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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Never.
wait, they shut off? who knew.
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.
Prod environments typically don’t have downtime. Save for patching every quarter that requires a host reboot.
Whenever there is a proxmox kernel update. Every few years to dust them If i get new hardware.
Mine are running all of the time, including during power outages, and are only shut down for physical maintenance and reboot for software maintenance.
This is a little variable through. Windows hosts tend to require more frequent software reboots in my experience. About once a year, I physically open each device and inspect, clean dust (fairly rare to find it for my setup though), and perform upgrades, replace old storage devices and such. Otherwise I leave them alone.
I usually get about 5-7 years out of the servers and 10 out of networking hardware, but sometimes a total failure occurs unexpectedly still and I just deal with it as needed.
Mine chug along 24/7 only a restart for updates
They have an off switch? who knew.
… shutting down?
I have a five 9s SLA with the wife for Plex.
Changes rarely get approved anyway.
She likes to sweat those assets.
Lol. 236 days and 107 days since the last reboots of my two servers.
Out of 6 Cisco servers 3 have auto power on at 7am and auto shutdown at 11 pm. Other 3 are 24/7
Whenever regular patching necessitates a reboot. Typically once a month.
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!