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How often should you reboot a production webserver? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You should upgrade for security updates every six hours and reboot on every kernel upgrade

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So you have cron handle your reboots?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I use unattended-upgrades on Debian to upgrade and reboot when necessary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

is that safe? ever had issues with updating production automatically?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

I never had any issues with that