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Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months

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On 2016-01-15 18:41:02 +0000, Rich <rich@example.invalid> said:

> http://m.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/14/server_retired_after_18_years_and_ten_months_beat_that_readers/#content

 
> 
>  Ross says the box was "Built and brought into service in early 1997" and
>    has "been running 24/7 for 18 years and 10 months."
> 
>    <snip>

>   The FreeBSD 2.2.1 box "collected user session (connection) data
>    summaries, held copies of invoices, generated warning messages about
>    data and call usage (rates and actual data against limits), let them do
>    realtime account enquiries etc."

Fun story for the electronics of course, but that's obviously a 
terrible, terrible idea. Holds invoices? Real time account enquiries? 
Sounds like business critical processes to me, and to have them on such 
an supported environment is just foolish.

They later say it took a lot of work to move the reports to a new 
machine. The work would still have been worth it, but even if they'd 
done something as simple as dd the drive to some virtual machine and 
then run the same system on non-EOL hardware, they'd -still- be better 
off.

Clear example of penny wise, pound foolish.


Cheers,
Ian

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Server retired after 18 years and ten months Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-15 18:41 +0000
  Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2016-01-15 22:28 +0000
    Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-16 16:02 +0400

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