I've worked places where we never restarted them for years (short of a hardware failure) to places that had us remote in on the weekend and bring 30 servers down/up every saturday.
Is there any "best practices" whatsoever concerning this?
The odd thing I've seen is the places I worked where the majority of servers were windows boxes were the same ones that never wanted them restarted. While a place I worked that was largely comprised of *nix / i-series machines wanted them restarted weekly.
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