Its less "often" and more "convenient". If you need to make a chance, reboot, shutdown, etc, is it easier to open your browser, login to DO, find the droplet, etc? Or two clicks in the menubar?

Can't imagine not trying to login to the server and doing some investigation before just doing a blind reboot

I agree with parent, and prefer this http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/

Best of both worlds (and works with all hosts) only thing you lose is the 1 click reboot/shutdown

I use shuttle (all of our infrastructure is AWS); excellent recommendation.

And you would be surprised how often blind reboots happen (sometimes you don't get to make the call).

Disclaimer: DevOps/Sysadmin.

Hopefully you aren't taking calls from the Sales Guy telling you to reboot blind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU :P

Classic!

I use shuttle as well as sshpass so I don't have to enter in the passwords (too many to remember).

Unless you do it every few days, menubar seems maybe a bit excessive. Something like linode/cli[1] might be a better solution for the occasional use.

[1]: https://github.com/linode/cli

Naturally, this is for Linode, but I assume there exist CLI tools for other providers.

Versus click the bookmark to your droplet list or linode list?

Or do your service maintenance via ssh on the box?

I'm saying it clearly has value. You may not agree, but there appears to be an audience for the tool.