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Server uptime used to be a point of pride. Now people try to shut them down as often as they can. Funny how things change.

• viraptor 5y ago
  We moved a lot of things from "that one server that's setup just-so by hand" to automated and repeatable setups. If we had more/ cheaper servers before, we'd likely get there earlier.
• Sitio 5y ago
  My server had 80kbyte bandwidth and doing very little in a much slower time. Kernel patches were not on top of my head 15 years ago.
• Bluecobra 5y ago
  Indeed, I remember going though great lengths to keep the Solaris hosts up that I used to administer. The graybeards I worked with treated rebooting as last resort, like admitting defeat. It was a dirty word, only reserved for lesser operating systems like Windows 95, that needed rebooting often. There was an art to systems administration that seems to be lost now. Or maybe I am just looking back though rose colored glasses. :)
  • count 5y ago
    To be fair, it also used to take sometimes an hour+ to reinit a system. All those SCSI busses had to be enumerated, all the RAM checked for error, ah, the old days...
• joshstrange 5y ago
  That seems to go hand-in-hand with the "Cattle not pets" concept, which I'm a huge fan of.