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

I mean, so far the longest uptime I’ve seen at my current job is 9 years. Yes, that host should be patched. But given its role, and network access, it’s fine. Running strong. It is in a DC. Server grade hardware is designed with 24/7 operation in mind. Consumer hardware might be fine, but wasn’t designed with 24/7 critical operation in mind.

At home, I have some nucs on 24/7, and a r740 and nx3230 on 24/7. The rest is for true lab env and I only power on as needed.