Server Retired After 18 Years And Ten Months - Beat That, Readers! - The Register

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Link: Server retired after 18 years and ten months - beat that, readers! - The Register

 

The Register has learned, thanks to a post to a semi-private mailing list, of a server that has just been decommissioned after running without replacement parts since 1997.

 

The post, made by a chap named Ross, says he “Just switched off our longest running server.”

 

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.”...

[ITGURU]

Whilst it's not quite the same I've still got some servers running that are 11 years old! Whilst they're not up to spec for production purposes they make good backup servers!

[3s-gtech]

I've still got our 16 year old Dell 2500 and three 2550s sitting in a rack in our backup room - partly because they're massive and hard to remove! Haven't been turned on for a few years, but should work. With virtualisation now, they're not hugely useful...

[Quackers]

Our 3 domain controllers will hit 10 years old this year. Still working fine.

[dapaulio]

I had a server a decommissioned to scrap last month. It had been active on a number of roles for longer than I had been there. Don't know exactly the build date but i have been there for 13 years). It was a custom built admin dc/file server when we had a split admin and curriculum networks. When the two networks were merged, it was recommissioned a number of time as backup servers. It had all the same hardware inside with the exception to replacement hard drives. I could have shed a tear whilst removing all of its internals listening to a fitting track, the hollies - He ain't heavy, he's my brother. Rip. Fyi It was heavy. Bloody thing nearly killed me removing it from the cab. Edited January 23, 2016 by dapaulio

[CyberNerd]

There is a tendency to overspec things. Our fileserver (2000 users) still runs fine with 1GB ram, it doesn't de-duplicate files and is a similar spec to my phone*. No gui, just runs samba and it does a pretty good job. It is a virtual machine so I could up-spec it if it needed it. Much of the load is now outsourced to Google so I can see that running for a few years yet; never needs a reboot and is rock solid, linux severs FTW!

 

* should mention it has a FC SAN with SSD for the regularly used files.