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How often are you shutting down your hosts? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by theguy_win@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] LAKnerd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

My optiplex 9010 sff is what I use for experimenting with services and as a staging area for moving VMs to my main lab because it's air gapped. At max load it runs at 140w but it has a GTX 1650 that I use for gaming as well.

Otherwise the rest of my lab is only turned on when I'm using it or forget to turn it off when I leave the house. When I get a laptop again I'll leave it on more. None of it is more than $150 to replace though. It's a Hyve Zeus, Cisco isr 4331, and a catalyst 3750x so nothing heavy, just a little loud.