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What was the longest uptime you have ever reached with a Linux server?
Second part of the question: what steps do you take to maximize the uptime while keeping the server up to date and secure as much as possible?
I typically use Ubuntu on servers so I use LivePatch to keep the kernel patched for security bugs, and also use unattended upgrades to upgrade stuff automatically, with the occasional restart of specific services with NeedRestart as opposed as rebooting the server altogether. Di you do the same or do you do something extra?
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I don't
But I implement a high-availability architecture when necessary
I think the maximum I've reached must be around 1 - 1.5 years
But it's just that I wasn't using the server anymore (so without any software upgrade)
Not that long
Even since I’ve started to use LivePatch myself, I still feel the urge to reboot every now and then
Not as often
But still, sometimes
I think half a year or something (server running on home PC.. don't worry, I only used the PC as a server and nothing else)
A random RHEL 5.9 box picked out of a hat at work, it's probably not the highest in the fleet:
02:31:11 up 3030 days, 17:50, 0 users, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.01The disks in it failed some time ago and the root filesystem is read only
Dang you beat me! We use kernelcare and have for a longgggg time, don't reboot unless have to along with all LTS versions of os. Longest we've ever gotten was around 1300. Nothings close to that anymore.
Currently longest at home of mine,
10:01:07 up 475 days, 16:28, 4 users, load average: 0.77, 0.72, 0.71Is Linux phone was count?
Pihole (SBC): 370 days, still on Debian 10, will upgrade it to 12 next month.
For the next upgrade, I'll use a cronjob to restart the server once a month.
Almost 8.5 years? Wow.
I always reboot my VPS at most once per month.
Since the latest and greats security patch / hack shit / exploit and other flying around the net, for VPS and bare-metal , barely 6+MO.
Appliances like Switch, Router 12+mo,
We did had some vMware 5.5 Nodes @ 760+ Days, since we upgraded them to 7.X, nahhhh......
Hey you got your 25k?
12+ years. Physical dedicated server serving some voip shit. I left job and it still spinned fine. Load 0.00, drives seems to be ok, thought no one dared to restart. Spinning debian 4 afaik.
not yet, I might have to wait for a while still unfortunately.
Respect
Wow lol. So you haven't been updating it at all for years? And it's not been hacked yet? Impressive
It is not accessible from outside, just serving some audio files when caller unavailable. Updates are impossible due to non existing repos
. That server is live embodiment of “if it works - don’t fix it”. Admins before me was scarred of that server and I was too. It had some custom coded c++ software which no one had source code.
Gotcha. Would be interesting to see how long it can stay up still
Probably about 550 days on a KS-2 years ago.
Several OVH vps:
02:14:23 up 526 days, 13:13, 1 user, load average: 2.82, 2.28, 1.68Sorry for the necro, but I didn't want to start a new thread, since it's still on topic, and I really wanted to share.
Just logged into a server I need to decom that has been incredibly stable over at Hetzner, and well:
That's 5 years and 222 days!
11 years. That server still runs debian 5 if i recall correctly. Scary stuff. It runs auto message like “this number is busy” in telco.
always reboot after kernel update
so the longer newer kernel update available
the longer the uptime
Mine was about 5 years. I was still using it, just forgot about upgrading it. Only realised when I tried to spot apt-get install something and discovered the whole repo had long been deleted.
I had uptime of 1050 days then I cancelled the service bcoz I no longer need it now currently 1 server is with 380 days uptime with colocrossing
one of our node -
you have ever reached with a Linux server?
30 minutes. Ran couple of yabs, then installed BSD.
Notes to self all the users running critical services on insecure servers
You're making a lot of assumptions about criticality of these machines!