Age of your oldest (production) server?

[pete]

I have a server that is 8-9 years old (documentation was lacking in those days) and still* runs as a DC for my Admin network. It chugs a bit when a lot of users are writing reports, but apart from that is my most reliable (based on issues over lifespan) server.

 

Can anyone beat that?

 

(NB: we're not counting servers kept running for uptime dsw purposes.)

 

 

*Though I have a shiny! replacement waiting in the wings.

 

[edit: ok, so pointy brackets don't work in survey options.]

[john]

Has it to have been running as a server since it was born? If so then mines 6 years, if not, its 8 years

[dustmite]

One of ours is going on for 7 years, although, the task that it does it does well - it's a small webserver handling the output of one of our login scripts and outputting it with bunch of basic database writes (to another server, may I very quickly add).

 

Of course, I have shiny new servers coming in to replace my old estate soon... woohoo!

[Dos_Box]

I have a server that is 8-9 years old (documentation was lacking in those days) and still* runs as a DC for my Admin network. It chugs a bit when a lot of users are writing reports, but apart from that is my most reliable (based on issues over lifespan) server.

 

Can anyone beat that?

 

(NB: we're not counting servers kept running for uptime dsw purposes.)

 

 

*Though I have a shiny! replacement waiting in the wings.

 

[edit: ok, so pointy brackets don't work in survey options.]

 

I'll bet you darn't turn it off tough.

[kingswood]

5 years for our oldest DC. Just getting error messages on the HDD lights in the past several months- apart from that it's been solid.

[Geoff]

Nothing really old here I'm afraid. Worst we can do is probably about 5 years old.

 

11 year old machine at home sharing my net connection. Fear the power of the P-233!

[webman]

When I was on dialup I used an Apricot 25MHz machine with 8MB RAM running Freesco to share my 'net

 

Ahhhh those were the days

 

Oldest production server at the school would be the 2 DCs which are just coming up to 3 years old. We still have a beige RM System Base RX chassis from 1999 that ran Connect 2.4 but we don't use it for anything at the moment

[paul]

Our oldest which just runs as a DB server for a piece of reporting software (but am to lazy to bother moving it onto a shiny new box) dates back to when I was in year 9, that makes it about 8 years old!

[paul]

Our oldest which just runs as a DB server for a piece of reporting software (but am to lazy to bother moving it onto a shiny new box) dates back to when I was in year 9, that makes it about 8 years old!

[Norphy]

Our oldest server is our SIMS server, an old Dell Poweredge 2400. Dual PIII 733MHz CPUs, 1GB RAM and 5 SCSI hard drives.

 

Its getting replaced in April, its really starting to struggle.

[Geoff]

Our oldest server is our SIMS server, an old Dell Poweredge 2400. Dual PIII 733MHz CPUs, 1GB RAM and 5 SCSI hard drives.

 

That'd make a nice Linux server.

[pete]

I'll bet you darn't turn it off tough.

 

It's fine - slow to boot, but gets there. Admittedly, I do stand there and watch it until it gets to a login prompt.

[Norphy]

Our oldest server is our SIMS server, an old Dell Poweredge 2400. Dual PIII 733MHz CPUs, 1GB RAM and 5 SCSI hard drives.

 

That'd make a nice Linux server.

 

It makes a decent Windows sever. Just not a SIMS server

[webman]

It makes a decent Windows sever. Just not a SIMS server

 

I wasn't aware that Microsoft released a server edition of 3.11

[tarquel]

Our oldest server was a 6+ year old Compaq netware 4 server - dunno any more than that because back then, the County installed it and set it up.

 

It was our sims server - but when .net appeared, slowly but surely i managed to retire it.

 

It is now sitting there lifeless :D

 

Our current oldest server would be our bromcom server now i guess - which is a HP Workstation [lol amusingly named model considering its a server hehe] and tho i dont know the spec offhand, it must be about 3+ years old running Server 2000.

 

My old HP Netserver E60 [bought in 2000] is ready to make a comeback in our oldest server running contest tho lol linux fun - if i ever have the spare time and will-power

 

Cheers

Nath

[Quackers]

It makes a decent Windows sever. Just not a SIMS server

 

I wasn't aware that Microsoft released a server edition of 3.11

 

 

Never seen NT 3.xx ? The power of NT with the interface of 3.1. Very nice.

 

Our oldest is an RM RX 7 years old, duel PIII Xeon 550Mhz 1GB RAM current job, schools Quake III Server. Runs Windows 2003 fine.

[pete]

Our oldest is an RM RX 7 years old, duel PIII Xeon 550Mhz 1GB RAM current job, schools Quake III Server. Runs Windows 2003 fine.

 

heh, is that an "official" server then? Wonder if I can sneak one into my budget proposal this year.

[Quackers]

Our oldest is an RM RX 7 years old, duel PIII Xeon 550Mhz 1GB RAM current job, schools Quake III Server. Runs Windows 2003 fine.

 

heh, is that an "official" server then? Wonder if I can sneak one into my budget proposal this year.

 

Lets just say it runs 2 Quake III Servers, and they hold 40 a server, and at lunch times they both become "full"

[E1uSiV3]

When I was on dialup I used an Apricot 25MHz machine with 8MB RAM running Freesco to share my 'net

 

My father helped design that computer back in the day when he worked for apricot i have one in my bedroom lol

 

Even more cool is i provided that website with teh mitsubishi insight CDs because im the last known person who still has a copy lol.

 

I even did the basic website design for http://www.actapricot.org lol

 

btw, dont blame me if the code on that website dont validate any more, the templates did when i gave them to him and hes added to them since

[webman]

That's very interesting to know E1uSiV3! I don't have the box any more, thrown out when I last moved but I can imagine it was a good machine "back in the day". I was surprised that it had a coloured POST screen, too...

[ChrisH]

I think I have one of those insight CDs in my old CD pack I used to work for an old Apricot reseller

[Geoff]

I'd like to revise my answer. I just found an old Dell 486 in a cupboard. Booting it up reveals its running OS/2 Warp. No one has any idea how long its been there...

[webman]

Blimey! 8O Sell it to a museum

[john]

I got worse than that in my charity pile I found a 386

[Norphy]

I have a boxed copy of Windows 3.1 with all six disks and the EULA sitting on my shelf at the moment. AND a Peter Norton pinkshirt book

 

Until a few months ago, I had a load of olde computer components sitting on top of my wardrobe, amongst them a 286 motherboard. It was bigger than an EATX motherboard and had a mixture of 8 and 16 bit ISA Slots. It didn't have any form of I/O on there aside from the keyboard port, everything was plugged in with expansion cards. And the CPU was about 1cm square.

 

Those were the days