504 days without a reboot... win 2k3 running a few sql databases, ipsec running...

so far so good... gotta like SM!!!

Hmmm, are you applying any critical updates? I know for a fact that some critical updates have required a restart, so quite how you achieved 504 days is beyond me.

Unless, of course, you are excluding restarts of this nature from your figure

I shut down my servers in the evening to help conserve power.

504 days without a critical update. :shock: You must be so proud!

Maybe you should post your IP as well so the hackers know where to look.

Be nice, kids. A 504 day uptime is something to be proud of.

No way SP1 is installed either...

Still a long time. I had a Win 2000 non-production server run for 345+ days...

Running for that long is a huge security risk though.

It's probably not that big of a security risk if the system is firewalled except for necessary ports, like 80. Maybe it's a backend database server that doesn't even handle public traffic.

Ive got a windows dual xeon running here at the house close to 200 days. Gotta love the local power company..

You've got me beat. My RHEL3 box at ServerMatrix is only up to 423 days of uptime.

I should probably apply a kernel update, but meh.

At home, I actually run into trouble with TOO MUCH uptime on my DSL modem and wireless router. Shortly before I ditched my desktop for a laptop, I spent a small fortune on an enormous UPS. 1500va. Unfortunately, as I said, laptop. So for lack of a better use for the UPS, it powers my DSL modem and WiFi router.

Thing is, the devices use virtually no power at all. So when the UPS goes into battery mode, it can go for 6 hours until dying. The UPS itself is probably drawing more power from the batteries than the devices are.

They also make a battery addon that gives 3x the runtime for my UPS. Seeing how light my load is, I might be able to do better than 3x. The price keeps dropping, and even though I don't needed, I'm so tempted to buy it just to see if I can get 24 hours of battery backup

Of course, no laptop will last 6 hours, certainly not mine. But I have indeed used the internet during a power outage. The power goes out, as do the lights, but my laptop and internet just keep going, so I just keep surfing until it comes back on.

Anyhow, because of the insane battery power for my tiny little DSL modem and WiFi router, they esentially never reboot or shut down. And it seems that after 6 months of uptime, my DSL modem stopped working and needed a reboot

I had a similar uptime but was with the beta version of what would later be Windows 2000 Professional. At the time I installed it, I had 2-3 development machines I let run 24/7 and somehow forgot I didn't migrate this to the retail version or to another testing OS. Wish I could find my screenshot of 365+ day uptime. I was rather proud of that!

Then again, it didn't DO anything for almost 100 days other than run idle but still, 365 days w/o power loss is still something to be proud of!

I love APC

I hit 180 days of uptime on a box running a beta of Win2K3, but that was before I bought my APC BackUPS RS-1500.

Right now the massive UPS is powering just a DSL modem and router, which probably draw less power than the fan in the UPS

The UPS runs for 6 hours on battery with the two devices plugged in, and I'm tempted pick up the add-on battery to get that up to 18 to 24 hours. Not because I need it, since there hasn't been a power failure even 6 hours long in ages (not to mention my laptop battery would die before than and I'd have to plug it too into the UPS), but because I CAN!

Besides, having a UPS around the house is always a good thing. If there is a real emergency and you need power during an outage, having a high capacity UPS handy (Mine is rated at just under a kilowatt, 865w) can be useful. Powering an LED or flourescent lamp, a TV, a radio, even recharging a cellphone. You never know.

Of course, I'm just trying to justify having spent $400 on a UPS right before I ended up buying a laptop and having nothing to plug in to the UPS.

Personally I prefer to reboot servers quarterly or so, around the 90 day mark, so that security patches are implemented. And for home computers, those usually get shut down nightly except for weekends. This way everything gets a fresh start on a regular basis to keep them running more efficiently.