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Doesn't that worry you a bit? I remember amazon having trouble re starting machines that had been up for several years. I think they ran into several problems.
by jfoutz 19y ago
Doesn't that worry you a bit? I remember amazon having trouble re starting machines that had been up for several years. I think they ran into several problems. Boot sector demagnetization was one. I think they had problems with drives that could spin, but failed in such a way they couldn't start spinning.
Really, you should consider power cycling every 90 days or so, just to make sure you can restart. at least use several different brands of HD in your raid arrays.
- noonespecial 19y agoYeah, that is good advice. I'd do it if I cared at all about what was on them. They're just part of the "long tail" of hardware, long migrated off of. Now we just let them run for the novelty of saying, "look its been up for YEARS!" One does a webcam of the server room. As a side note, every single production server we now use is a vmware instance... how do you count uptime there as it gets passed around various physical machines?