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Long running serverI've just retired our old office Exchange Server, it's been running continuously for over 8 years. Why this is surprising is that it’s still running on the same single disk without any failures and it’s a home built machine. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to. The only reason it’s being retired is that we’ve finally upgraded the software.
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RichardW
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Some of the very old pc's I have taken out have been a marvel they still worked. Almost solid lumps of dirt dust sticky goo & fag smoke. New ps's fall over if they dont get a dust out occasionaly.
Richard
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orangepippin
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Win2000 Server or NT? We had an ISA firewall running non-stop for I would guess 3-4 years, I would not think that possible on NT but Win2000 was much better.
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| orangepippin wrote: | | Win2000 Server or NT? We had an ISA firewall running non-stop for I would guess 3-4 years, I would not think that possible on NT but Win2000 was much better. |
WinNT running Small Business Server. It's been very stable hardly ever needed rebooting. It was used a file server as well. I intended replace it 3 or 4 years ago just never got around to it.
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Maxwell Smart
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It's actually less taxing on a machine to keep it running non-stop. It's the power cycles which potentially cause damage.
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| orangepippin wrote: | | Win2000 Server or NT? We had an ISA firewall running non-stop for I would guess 3-4 years, I would not think that possible on NT but Win2000 was much better. |
We've just decommisioned a NT4 web server in Telehouse that had been running for about 7 years. With less than 150 sites it was rock solid it simply didn't need rebooting. More than that it suddenly become very unstable.
Anyone want a couple of 4U server cases?
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