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Keeping a Raspberry Pi online and working with zero intervention for weeks, months, or years is somewhat of an art form. Several classes of things can go wrong, and you need to consider how your Pi will recover from each of them.
While there are downsides, using a read-only root filesystem will dramatically increase your Pi SD card's lifetime.