Once a month to install patch Tuesday updates because my only host is still running Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 server. Planning to switch to Proxmox that but gonna take a while so I haven't got myself around to do it.
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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.
Hardware change or power outage
Whenever there is a proxmox kernel update. Every few years to dust them If i get new hardware.
Almost never since getting a whole home generator.
Sometimes I don’t need all the things running so I’ll kill a few pi’s and disks
When I’m adding hardware or decide to blow out my pc equipment (which is way less than I should). I have dogs and cats and their hair gets everywhere.
Let it run. Just power off idle drives and such.
Even though live kernel patching is a thing, I generally do a full reboot every month or two for the next big patch.
Full shut downs? Are we upgrading them, dusting them, or doing any other maintenance to them? That would be the only case besides UPS failure or power outage.
shutdown? - never :D
I keep the stuff running 24/7, barely once a year for cleanup pretty much / upgrades or whatever. Don't mind me I still got to get a UPS for when the electricity goes down which it hasn't happen in the past years
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.
… shutting down?
every kernel update, each host gets the boot. So uptime is rarely over a month.
Shut down? Never, reboot when necessary.
Only when I'm installing/removing hardware. Probably like once a year on average.
In the year mine has been running... it's been offline twice. Once, when upgrading the memory. The other was when I upgraded the processors. The only other time was a software update. Didn't require a reboot.
Power failures, hardware upgrades.