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Status: Closed Points: 75 Time: 12:15 - Sep 06, 2006  

john2

How many times should companies typically reboot their servers?

My current company has the practice of rebooting their servers every morning. This causes our websites to go down only for about 10 minutes as the servers reboot, but I want to know if this is a common practice, if it is good, or if it is just not necessary.

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PeterNZ

Date:: Sep 06, 2006

Time:: 22:13

Hi John,

why would you reboot the servers? What is the reason? So far in the companies I worked for, a server was only rebooted if it was absolutely necessary. And even then had we some DR (Disatser Recovery) servers where we switched over to. I can't think of a reason for a regulary reboot of a server! A server usually runs as long as possible and companies try to AVOID rebooting servers! It becomes necessary if you for example install a service pack which requires a reboot. But even then would you do this during times with the least traffic!

A regulary reboot schedule doesn't make sense to me! But as I said, if there is a reason for it, then you should look at the reason! Maybe they do it because of something gets initialised during a reboot. But then I would look into this and try to change this process to avoid a reboot.

Hope this helps you!

Cheers

Peter

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