if it’s on say less than 50% of the time then it’s probably best to turn it off between times to reduce the total on-time.
if it’s on almost all the time then it’s best to turn it off as little as possible as thermal changes could disturb a fragile contact. i hope to convert my always-on kit to low energy as soon as I can afford.
of course it’s bets to be turned on as little as possible from an environmental point of view.
everyone in serious computing knows a server which worked until it was rebooted 🙁
one problem with a machine which isn’t booted very often, is that corruptions and misconfigurations (and viruses on certain ossses) won’t be found until a long time afterwards, making them hard to fix if an emergency arises.
microsoft used to recommend that desktop series Windowses were rebooted at least every four days, because otherwise a counter overflowed and caused it to crash.
