uptime 2 years!

[Da Rock]

        On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:52 -0400, Mikel King wrote:
        > 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.
        
        Here, here...