Windows Updates

This may be a stupid question but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Some of you may have seen my other post re suggestions for firewall software. This new question is regarding Windows Updates for the dedicated Windows 2000 server that I've taken ownership of.

I realise how important it is to keep the system up to date with the latest patches and service packs from Microsoft, so I have set-up the Windows Updates to download automatically and to just let me know when they need to be installed. However, some of the updates require the system to be re-booted. Now if I'm hosting numerous websites on the server, I'm correct in saying that by rebooting the server this is going to bring down the websites?? If so, what other impacts, if any, will it have when the server is re-booted - in other words is it safe? Told you it was a stupid question!!

Also, by bringing the server down, will any services such as FTP, MSSQL Server etc need to be restarted?

 

 

 

 

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