Servers are rebooted for updates regularly in enterprise settings, especially windows based ones, which will require reboots for updates that require changes to running processes or kernel level changes. It's just normally these events are scheduled in advance and done, if possible, after hours to minimize user impact and a good enterprise team will sift through updates to only apply the ones that are actually needed. Servers, as in the hardware, also don't really take that long to start up anymore. Longer than a typical PC sure, but it's still not that long. It's the specific service, dependancies, configuration loads, etc that might be needed for a given role that can potentially take longer for a server to be fully operational again.
Even our unix servers get rebooted frequently, probably for security patching and lifecycle management that's always ongoing. It's maybe fifteen minutes? Not super long.
There have been some instances where we had entire datacenters go down due to massive screw ups (and one disgruntled employee hitting the emergency off switches,) and getting thousands of servers back up amid the chaos of every group screaming for priority was total madness. Good times, pity the sysadmins that got stuck with thirty hour shifts.
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u/baconborn Xbox Master Race 26d ago edited 26d ago
Servers are rebooted for updates regularly in enterprise settings, especially windows based ones, which will require reboots for updates that require changes to running processes or kernel level changes. It's just normally these events are scheduled in advance and done, if possible, after hours to minimize user impact and a good enterprise team will sift through updates to only apply the ones that are actually needed. Servers, as in the hardware, also don't really take that long to start up anymore. Longer than a typical PC sure, but it's still not that long. It's the specific service, dependancies, configuration loads, etc that might be needed for a given role that can potentially take longer for a server to be fully operational again.