Hi all! My name is Nick and I work as a Full Stack Engineer.
Part of my daily job is configuring and maintaining servers!
I work in a very hybrid...
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SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter made the point ages ago that a year of uptime means that you've (hopefully!) applied a year's worth of patches, security fixes, and configuration changes but don't actually know if the system can come back up if+when it does reboot for any reason in your control or outside it. It's stuck with me.
Very good point! I must confess this server had all mayor updates except the Kernell ones.
I don't know exactly but probably about a decade.
I worked for a while on recovering an application from a running server which hadn't ever been turned off and had "started making funny noises". I had to telnet to a SunOS box and grab the code and try to replicate functionality on a modern (well, modern for a few years ago) SUSE box. It wasn't just a case of updating the code, we weren't sure exactly how the system was supposed to work so I needed to run it in parallel on both systems to make sure my modifications weren't breaking functionality. That was fun :)
That is some Sensei level stuff
You should try kernelcare.com/ for kernel update without reboot.
Awesome, will definitely check it out
Where I work, we have a server that’s been up for 7 years, it’s a 32bit database server, not public, on its own vlan, it’s quite a beast - it’s officially EOL for us now, so we’re migrating it to our new 64 GB RAM, 8x2T server) (full disclosure: we’re our own data center)
Wow 7 years? That is a lot!
Awesome server you are migrating to. Our SQLServer main server has similar specs but in a cloud provider.
I'm working on retiring a server now that has an uptime of 1070 days, so about 3 years!
Was happy to see it past the 1000 day mark, ha!
Awesome! 1000 days is a lot!
Yeaaaaa, it's more of a thing to worry about, than a thing to brag about, as some have said haha.
That's not to say that nginx or mysql haven't "gone away" several times in the past 3 years :)
My longest server uptime is 7 years, the box was a database server, internal only. It was taken to the trash today. All cloud means all fun.