wait, they shut off? who knew.

Never.

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.

Never really shit my mini pcs down, sometimes I restart a proxmox node if I want it to use an updated kernal but that’s it. I don’t run large servers at home

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.

It depends. I don’t run anything public facing so security updates that need reboots are less of a concern to me

My Windows servers are rebooted once a month for patches. My Linux servers maybe once every couple months for kernel patches or if I screwed something up. My physical proxmox hosts? Twice in the last year. Once because I moved. The other time because I upgraded to proxmox 8.

I set up a cron job to reboot once a day. Its for my security cameras and I want to ensure access. But, if you dont have issues, you dont need to.

I shut down my NAS after work because I tend to not use it’s services outside yet and saving like 2/3 of a day in electricity is worth it. For the machines that provide services like networking and security they run on UPS 24/7 up until there is a need to update or a UPS has a failure

Only when I swap or upgrade internal hardware.

These run 24/7/365.

ppl shut down there hosts? Since when? XD

Only when I type “shutdown” on the wrong console window… New hardware or need to fix something.

So that’s pretty rare 😂

Power failures, hardware upgrades.

My Proxmox VM host ran for well over a year and I had to shut it down to add more RAM when I finally bought it. A couple VMs on it ran for just as long. All Linux stuff. Windows guest have to reboot minimum every 90 days or things start getting weird, just a DC

I shut my 4U desktop off at night to save energy unless it’s running some overnight compute job. NAS goes into sleep mode but stays on. Switch, router, home assistant NUC stay on.

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.