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

wait, they shut off? who knew.

Never.

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.

I boot my big server whenever i need it, everything else is 24/7. I have had no catastrophic failures in either for the last 2-3 years, so it seems to be fine?

Whenever there is a proxmox kernel update. Every few years to dust them If i get new hardware.

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.

Mine chug along 24/7 only a restart for updates

Uhhhhh, never

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

Only when I’m installing/removing hardware. Probably like once a year on average.

Almost never since getting a whole home generator.

They have an off switch? who knew.

If it is a Windows 95 server then every three days. Format and reinstall once every three months.

Mine are running all of the time, including during power outages, and are only shut down for physical maintenance and reboot for software maintenance.

This is a little variable through. Windows hosts tend to require more frequent software reboots in my experience. About once a year, I physically open each device and inspect, clean dust (fairly rare to find it for my setup though), and perform upgrades, replace old storage devices and such. Otherwise I leave them alone.

I usually get about 5-7 years out of the servers and 10 out of networking hardware, but sometimes a total failure occurs unexpectedly still and I just deal with it as needed.