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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    10 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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    10 months ago

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

  • Sylogz@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Only shut down for maintenance if hardware breaks. Otherwise reboots are done to update firmwares, esxi.

  • Deckdestroyerz@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What are you guys even running that needs to be on?

    I just got a Dell R510 and a HPe Proliant 360 g7, installed esx on them, but i cant find anything that would justify running them for 24/7.

    I mean, besides a nas that holds some files… i cant find anything worthy… can only think about enterprise purposes which i dont meed at home.

    So, to answer the question, they are always off untill i want to experiment

  • jheizer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My stuff is pretty low powered so it runs 24/7 except one old machine I use as a last resort offline backup that I boot and sync to every few months.

  • einstein987-1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 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

  • TheStoicSlab@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months 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.

  • MaintenanceSpirited1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have built a UPS with 200AH 12V battery with inverter charger for RV. It never fails with power so it runs like for months until I decided to put something in… let’s see

  • lucky644@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 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.

  • Lopoetve@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Summer every day in the afternoon for heat and power usage (time of use bills triple from 3-9pm). Scripted to run on one host per site for must have apps.

    Winter - once a month for the weekend after patch Tuesday. It’s a chance to check for cables being nibbled/cleaning/other things needing doing.