Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian McCall Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:28:50 +0000 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net NUUz4F25QTtfebL85uGWEQuVGrg1CU0XmrkzF3cMO47om7qIME Cancel-Lock: sha1:mYgAg39k16MDqDerH02ZZQspZJo= User-Agent: Unison/1.8.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:10010 On 2016-01-15 18:41:02 +0000, Rich 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." > > > 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