Sorry Devs - Read it and weep!

While the servers are down (dunno if they're up yet, still at work!), I thought I'd share this to inspire jealousy and awe to anyone responsible for maintaining production servers!

Look at the Server up time:  line!

While the servers are down (dunno if they're up yet, still at work!), I thought I'd share this to inspire jealousy and awe to anyone responsible for maintaining production servers!

Look at the Server up time:  line!

Sorry to burst your bubble but that isn't so unusual. There are computers that have never been turned off since they were turned on. And you dont have 10s or 100s of thousands of users interacting with it simultaneously. "Rock solid" is relative until you have the masses hammer it to expose race condition bugs that exist in almost every OS and Network software in existence. This is how DoS attacks work really attempting to process thousands of requests per tick will kill most systems.

So if you want to compare set it up to allow the masses to use it in some form and see how long it lasts.

1000 days is roughly 3.9 years of time. I am willing to be there are government and/or military systems that have a much longer up time than that. I worked on one while in the military so I have seen at least 1 and to my knowledge I believe there is probably some archaic university machines still running in a few basements that have that kind of up time.

I wouldn't count on that, I'm in the military and even our *poop* never seems to work right...

Thats what you get when you promote based on how many pushups someone can do. =P

 As to archaic university machines, definitely. I was a comp sci major at Indiana University and there were machines that had been up since I was a wee lad.