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I think you're being a bit rose-colored glasses here if you're implying that apache/cgi sites had some sort of incredible uptime record back in the time when "t

I think you're being a bit rose-colored glasses here if you're implying that apache/cgi sites had some sort of incredible uptime record back in the time when "the slashdot effect" was still a thing. > Most of my bare metal and colocated machines have uptime of many years. Nobody cares about host uptime, that just means you're not applying security updates. You're lamenting that you have to worry about fault tolerance in the cloud when the entire point is to have throw away instances!

scott_karana 9y ago
> Nobody cares about host uptime, that just means you're not applying security updates. Um... Only kernel updates used to require a reboot, and production security-critical ones are fairly rare. Solutions like ksplice, kexec, kpatch, or kgraft have existed since about 2011, and now the Linux kernel has first-class support for "no reboot" updates.