Many, many years ago I had a Red Hat server running Bind. First the fan in the machine died. Then the video card died. Then finally all of the LEDs stopped working (including those in the NIC). The only way you could tell if the machine was on or not was to issue a DNS query against it ... which it happily kept answering without ever stopping.
As long as you are doing all of the usual maintenance tasks (patching, checking logs, monitoring resources etc), there isn't any real need to reboot a *nix/BSD server - certainly not just because you are nervous!
As long as you are doing all of the usual maintenance tasks (patching, checking logs, monitoring resources etc), there isn't any real need to reboot a *nix/BSD server - certainly not just because you are nervous!