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?

  • horse-boy1@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months 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.

  • R_X_R@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

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

  • einstein987-1@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I shut down my NAS after work because I tend to not use it’s services outside yet and saving like 2/3 of a day in electricity is worth it. For the machines that provide services like networking and security they run on UPS 24/7 up until there is a need to update or a UPS has a failure

  • destronger@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    mine is small and idles at 17 watts, but i’ll shut it down if i don’t use for many days. also when i’m on vacation.

  • dheera@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I shut my 4U desktop off at night to save energy unless it’s running some overnight compute job. NAS goes into sleep mode but stays on. Switch, router, home assistant NUC stay on.

  • hollowman8904@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You don’t (and generally shouldn’t) reboot servers. People got this idea that PCs needed to be rebooted because Windows is trash and becomes more unstable the longer it runs. Server OS’s dont have this problem.

  • lucky644@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have several ESXi hosts, which automatically turn off and on as needed by vCenter based on server loads.

    Otherwise, I don’t turn anything else off.

  • CasualEveryday@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I suppose it depends what kind of hardware you’re using. I have enterprise class servers that are meant to run 24/7 and they do. They’ll be useless technologically before they wear out.

  • _Morlack@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Network services 24/7 (4 rpi3) Nas shutdowns every day at 23:30 and boots at 9:00, except we that boots at 10:00. Apci schedule management is embedded in firmware (qnap).

    Servers shutdown at 23:15 and boots at 9:15 (we 10:15). For these rtcwake does the job.

    WoL is enabled in case of.