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Hosteroid – Pulling the Plug… after 1,082 days
Well, after 1082 days uptime its finally time to retire one of our older KVM nodes.
20:38:25 up 1082 days, 20:11, 0 users,
load average: 19.07, 20.12, 22.14
Nothing actually died, no RAID disaster and no deadpool thread today 😅
Its just time to move the VMs to newer hardware and let this old guy finally rest.
Honestly feels a bit wrong to do shutdown after almost 3 years uptime.
RIP uptime counter 
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DO NOT SCARE ME LIKE THAT
Please tell me this is some internal node, no customers run their VMs there, and/or it doesn't use Linux and QEMU... (or use some fancy live kernel patching, or kexec doesn't reset the uptime, or ...)
(I know, I'm not fun at parties...)
GLW pulling the plug ♥
Nice bait
literally pulling the plug
You just reminded me of my old dedicated server 🥲
It had 730 days of uptime, and when I moved to another company, that was the first time I ever shut it down..
I'm sad, not because I turned it off, but because all the settings on that server were temporary, and for 730 days I was always scared that it might go down and I’d have to rebuild setrings from scratch, which would’ve taken me a whole day 🤦♂️🤣
"Fancy" live kernel patching is called kernelcare and costs 2-3 dollars per month. Ubuntu, on the other hand, offers livepatching for free.
Thanks for the hints. Tbh, my workloads allow for reboots and I've never looked too deep into live patching so I file that under "fancy stuff" in my head.
In most cases, VMs are live-migrated to other nodes during patching or other maintenance activities.
my sleeping laptop has also high uptime.
Bro! No popcorn? No drama? No data lost? No unhappy customers that want to start a threat on LET?
I have a VPS on the XenVz UK node that has been running for around 16 years. I imagine this box as some forgotten relic, silently running somewhere in a dark corner... It hasn't even been rebooted or touched in ages. I'd say it's had nearly 100% uptime over the past 10 years.
I cancelled it years ago. I even emailed Sean years ago two or three times, to remove it from my panel but got no response.
I was about to power it down, but then I got an idea. I upgraded OS and just let it sit there, waiting for the cancellation to happen... but that never happened.
I don't abuse it. I don't even use it - apart from security updates. I just let it live... as long as it can.
I am wondering who will die sooner. Me or this VPS.
Dude. TF your title