uptime 2 years!

[Mikel King]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Chad Marshall wrote:

> No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a  
> longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap/ 
> squirrelmail  (60+ accounts and 30-40 forwards) mailserver with  
> apache/php/mysql.  Also use it as a slave authoritative nameserver  
> for over 100 zones (one zone with a 60sec TTL on a high volume  
> production website) as well. Plus use it as a primary nameserver for  
> our entire office (300+ workstations). I was lazy with it (Upgrading  
> or Replacing) and when it hit a year, I decided to hold off doing  
> anything with it as I wanted to see how long I could let it go.   
> It's a celeron 2.4ghz server with 512m Ram and has been a champ  
> server in it's performance and stability. I use CentOS for most of  
> my other systems and find that as easy as it is for administration  
> and upgrading, it lacks FreeBSD's performance. With the memory leaks  
> that CentOS has, I usually have to end up restarting the  
> machine(s).  With FreeBSD I can just restart the services, and got  
> my memory back and reduce the amount of swap being used.
>
> Regardless of the first email I got back (Which was a little rude),  
> I will continue to run this server as long as I can and monitor the  
> security risks using DenyHosts and other security measures.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Frank Shute wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the
>>> past but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2
>>> years tomorrow. I plan on putting on my blog but as it doesn't have
>>> much reach but wanted to share with you since your community has  
>>> made
>>> this possible. Please indicate where I could post this to have a bit
>>> more reach or if you'd like to put a link to my blog, I'd be more  
>>> than
>>> happy to provide that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>
>> Sorry to rain on your parade:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2008-October/005719.html
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>

I think this is good news, and thanks for posting it. While it may not  
be a record holder, from an advocacy point of view it's nice to see.  
It means there one more rock solid server out there.

Cheers,
Mikel King
CEO, Olivent Technologies
Senior Editor, Daemon News
Columnist, BSD Magazine
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