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How often should you reboot a production webserver?
(hexbear.net)
Specifically, a dedicated server running Debian 12.
After a monthly sudo apt upgrade? (Is a monthly upgrade even necessary?)
Never? (unless there is a security update?)
Edit: I may be missing kernel upgrades. Those are probably good... I can't remember if I installed a LTS kernel. I imagine it would be unsecure to post an exact kernel version, however.
I could do that, but the server reboots faster than DNS records can update.
Sure but its less disruptive
Less dread that it won't come back online.
The high availability dilemma. Hardly ever need that hot spare. If 0 downtime isn't a requirement w/e