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.

wait, they shut off? who knew.

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

Never.

Usually I reboot once a year, but in reality power outages limit uptime to about this anyway.

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

mine is small and idles at 17 watts, but i’ll shut it down if i don’t use for many days. also when i’m on vacation.

shutdown? - never :D

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.

Out of 6 Cisco servers 3 have auto power on at 7am and auto shutdown at 11 pm. Other 3 are 24/7

Whenever regular patching necessitates a reboot. Typically once a month.

What uptimes are people looking at right now?

I have two hosts: raspberry pi that serves as a pi-hole and as a log of infrequent power outages, it goes 24/7, often with 100+ days of uptime (seeing the “(!)” sign in htop is so satisfying) and a SFF that shuts itself off nighty, provided nothing is happening on it (power is expensive).

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