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?

  • laser50@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It kind of also depends on the OS. And before the comments start; As with anything, situation & a bit of luck go a long way.

    But Linux based machines can be left enabled for months, some times even years. Windows I Honestly wouldn’t trust beyond a few months and even that would seem too much for my own taste.

    I reboot my systems monthly most of the time, usually paired with updates. But my main host is Windows serv, which gets daily reboots (power savings, I don’t need it on when I sleep), and the VMs on that are frozen & unfrozen so they are on for about a month or more until I do the above.