Your Server Uptime Records

dave-lew99

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I am moving house in a week or so, and i am forced into having to turn my home servers off. I have achieved quite a good uptime - better than i do at work in fact so im wondering what everyone else has achieved - best to differentiate between home and work and OSs, so i'll go first:

Home:
269 days, Ubuntu Server 6.10 on Viglen SX110 1U (dual P3 1.4, 1Gb ram RAID-1 18GB SCSI)

Work:
7 months or so - hand-me-down from old parent company (their custom build P4 based box) runs NetBSD

Worth noting that both were only shutdown for maintinence etc - no crashes here thanks ;)
 
We have a cacheing name server thats been up about 20 months now, that was only due to a power failure that it was down then. We're part way through replacing core boxes now so not much else has been up over 7-8 months
 
Found a box whilst decommissioning it... W2k advance with an uptime of about 750 days! :eek:

(can't remember the exact number - it was the end of last year)
 
I visited a customer with a HPUX box a while ago, it had been up over 9 years until the internal dat drive failed, to me though this meant that sod all patching ( inc y2k stuff ) had been done :p
 
Since my servers autopatch using WSUS they reboot themselves overnight on average once a month when major updates are released.

In terms of unscheduled downtime I've had maybe 1 day total in the last 10 years on my work network.

Not bad for a Windows environment.
 
My Desktop Routinely hits uptimes of ~1month; Record is 1m 27d or somth similar.
Home Server probably runs about 3mo between maintenance reboots (I start fiddling :p)

Fileserver at work had an uptime: 570d when it was last rebooted :s.
Other than that; some of them have uptimes >1yr.
 
We've got an Alpha DS15 at a customer site thats been up for 855 days. Tis a production server as well. the joys of VMS.
 
The org I work for had an old HPUX server when I joined and the sys admin told me a funny tale aout it.

He told me it had been rebooted only once since commisioning 6 years previously, during this time there were lots of installs and configuration changes. Only time it asked to be rebooted when Internet Explorer for UNIX was installed hehe.

^^ It's 100% true.
 
MikeTimbers said:
Good OSes don't need re-booting to be updated.
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What utter crap, I've not known a single high-end operating system that didn't have some inherient flaw with kernel design that forces a reboot within a year or so for it to be patched fully.

I never got this 'uptime' record malarky - to me a box with super high uptime is a security disaster waiting to happen, sandbox or not; you should keep them updated and this will, 9/10 mean a reboot after a few months.
 
The longest uptime on a Windows Server 2003 box I've seen is about 540 days, in which case the server was pretty unhappy and needed a reboot. Seen a novel 5 server with about 600 days until we turned it off and replaced it.
 
garyh said:
I never got this 'uptime' record malarky
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It's more to do with how long the boxes stay up without unplanned downtime - planned maintinence for patches, upgrades etc is acceptable really as your planned maintenence is always at 4am so as not to upset the users (yes, yes of course it is.... ;))
 
our Siemens Unix box had been up for just over 2 years before it shut itself down with fan failure at christmas, getting turned off for good though soon :(
 
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