mswlogo;185672 Wrote: > I'm ready to throw in the towel and just leave my Server running full > time, waste electricity and shorten life time of my server. > Use more electricity: yes; shorten the lifetime of your server: no. Computers work best when they are always on. Most commercial server machines run 24x7. I've had my computer running 24x7 for four years since I built it, and I've had no hardware problems.
Many Linux systems run maintenance programs every 24 hours. On my machine, these run between 3am and 4am. If you have a CRT monitor, it's a good idea to set it up to go into standby mode if it's not used for a while. If you have a Windows machine, and you leave it on 24x7 and connected to the Internet, make sure you have a good firewall program. See http://kb.iu.edu/data/adls.html for details. -- Ron Olsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Olsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9233 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33324 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
