Never.

wait, they shut off? who knew.

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.

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

My stuff only shuts down when the power goes out longer than my battery can hold

My chassis has 7 blades in it, and I typically only keep 4 powered on. However, I patch them regularly, requiring reboots, but I don’t have to take any VMs down with DRS.

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.

I don’t reboot servers in my homelab unless any update require me to do so. I do have a clustered Proxmox setup, so no downtime if the admin (aka me) doesn’t screw up ;-)

The only valid reason (imho) to reboot unless any update requires it would be apps with memory leaks where a service restart doesn’t fix the problem. Not often I face this problem these days, but earlier versions of Windows had the occasional habit…

Sometimes I don’t need all the things running so I’ll kill a few pi’s and disks

Only if I need to move it or upgrade the components, and that happens maybe once a year, if not less.

If it weren’t for that and power outages, they would have been on for 5+ years.

I don’t ever shut them down “just because why not”.

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.

ppl shut down there hosts? Since when? XD

Hardware change or power outage

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 regular patching necessitates a reboot. Typically once a month.