Another one of the most stable things I did was ditching the VM I was using to run HA and go to a Raspberry Pi.
I was using Microsoft Windows 10 as the platform on the PC, and then using VM software to create the HA system. In and of itself, the HA VM was very stable and I had no problems with it. But - Microsoft, in all of its haughty and oh-so-mighty glory, decides when you will install Windows updates (including restarting the PC), and if you don't like it - tough toenails. Long and short: I'd find that my wall-mount pads were unresponsive and automations weren't running, so I'd check the PC that ran the VM and it was sitting at the login screen.
Which created another bigger problem: a corrupted VM. I had to reinstall HA several times from the activity. It got old and frustrating very, very quickly.
I switched over to a Raspberry Pi 5 (using a nice Flirc case) with a 480GB external SSD, stuck the SSD in a clear case, and I've never looked back. This has been rock solid from day 1. I would highly recommend, with absolutely no reservations, going this route to run your HA system.
It runs a back-up every night and puts a copy of that back-up in the cloud; on the SSD; and on my home's NAS. But knock-on-wood, I haven't needed a back-up since I made the switch. It's been rock solid.
Do yourself a favor and put your HA system on a Pi.
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