I've installed a dedicated webserver back in 2006 when VM's and VPS'es were less common. In 2007 it was upgraded from Debian Woody to Debian Etch and it kept do

I've installed a dedicated webserver back in 2006 when VM's and VPS'es were less common. In 2007 it was upgraded from Debian Woody to Debian Etch and it kept doing its job until it was decommissioned with nearly 8 years of uptime. I find it quite remarkable that there we no datacenter power outages or any hardware problems (machine had a single HDD) during that period. And apparently the software (a Drupal website) didn't have any obvious vulnerabilities either.