What is the oldest server you have?

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Was searching through Digital Ocean this weekend and saw my oldest server is 7 years old - wow time flies. It runs a scraping script that finds me discounts for a certain niche of product that I resell. 7 years later, still going strong.

How old is your oldest server?

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Knownhost - 11 years 2 months old.

At one point it was hosting 70+ websites. Today it hosts 7.

(Has been through multiple hardware updates/upgrades - nothing changed at my end though)
 
I have a dedicated server that is 6 years old. Still running, no issues so far.

Code: 
[root@srv ~]# rpm -qi basesystem
Name        : basesystem
Version     : 10.0
Release     : 7.el7.centos
Architecture: noarch
Install Date: Wed 07 Mar 2016 10:25:06 AM CET
Group       : System Environment/Base
 
my oldest server is 6 year old.

normally i keep doing maintenance to my servers. and as most of my sites are small sites, i move them to new server regularly. (i do server cleanup once every year to delete unwanted/expired sites from server)
 
lucky.sparks said:
8 years or so.

who can beat my uptime tho? :smirk:

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You don't update the systems? :confused:

Code: 
[root@srv ~]# uptime
 21:00:20 up 27 days, 10:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.21, 0.18, 0.18

[root@srv ~]# uptime
 19:00:47 up 13 days, 17:22,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00

[root@srv ~]# uptime
 19:01:00 up 2 days, 12:46,  2 users,  load average: 10.06, 13.89, 14.25
 
TomTheCat said:
You don't update the systems?
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Its Linux. Those machines don't need to be rebooted for software updates.

Earlier they only required reboots for kernel updates but now even that can be done without reboots with stuff like Hotpatching.
 
Ashk881 said:
Its Linux. Those machines don't need to be rebooted for software updates.

Earlier they only required reboots for kernel updates but now even that can be done without reboots with stuff like Hotpatching.
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I know, but systems, do need a reboot sometimes.
 
# rpm -qi basesystem Name : basesystem Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 10.0 Vendor: CentOS Release : 4.el6 Build Date: Thu 11 Nov 2010 04:12:57 AM Install Date: Thu 25 Dec 2014 10:08:02 PM Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: basesystem-10.0-4.el6.src.rpm Signature : RSA/8, Sun 03 Jul 2011 08:00:48 AM
 
LuckyGamble said:
That can't be good for a server, man. At least a yearly restart xd
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TomTheCat said:
I know, but systems, do need a reboot sometimes.
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hah, If there would be a need for a reboot, I would already run into issues but the thing with linux, it's built that way. nowadays cloud services are helpful and services are distributed and loadbalanced but back in day - your server uptime meant stability in your small business operation.
 
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