I do this with webservers running trac all the time. Except I just restart the webserver I don't bounce the entire machine. I also find it relatively unbeliev

I do this with webservers running trac all the time. Except I just restart the webserver I don't bounce the entire machine. I also find it relatively unbelievable that the linked post claims that restarting servers requires a 24/7 operations team. He trusts his servers to do a bunch of other complex operations unwatched but doesn't trust them to do a restart? Obviously you need to make sure the next server waits until the one before it in the schedule comes back up before it dives down and send you an alert if one dies and doesn't come back, but otherwise this isn't something someone should have to run by hand. These aren't mainframes, you don't need an operator anymore. Have one if you want but you sure shouldn't need one.