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Reminds me of a day decades ago when I walked into a client site to do a server upgrade, and I noticed on their Novell Server, the uptime counter said it was cl
by cyberferret 10y ago
Reminds me of a day decades ago when I walked into a client site to do a server upgrade, and I noticed on their Novell Server, the uptime counter said it was close to 3 years of continuous uptime. I was flabbergasted. It was just an ordinary little small business with about 10 employees, and it was an old IBM server on a $100 UPS.
I almost couldn't bring myself to shut it down to do the upgrade. I mean, I saw servers with 100 to 300 days uptime routinely, but not one that had never been interrupted for over 1000 days....
- Animats 10y agoWhy not? I just looked at a dedicated server I have at a Codero colo site, and it says "System status: Database up for 516.23 days."
- cyberferret 10y agoI guess some context might be in order - this server was back in the early 90's, in an outback town that is known for massive thunderstorm and power cuts that usually play havoc with computer systems. Being a machine literally in a cupboard in the back of an office, and not in a controlled data center, it was an achievement to have run for 3 years uninterrupted.