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Re: Ever heard of a HP e3000 server? Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email]  (#32) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:35:00
In Reply to: Ever heard of a HP e3000 server?, cryptical, Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:26:31 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I run a pretty good sized server farm for a small business - there are about 36 machines running various versions of MS OSs, and RedHat Linux 7.3. We have two RedHat machines that are reporting 700+ days of uptime and one Windows 2k machine with 400-something.
I don't remember the last reason that required a reboot on the Windows box, but the two Linux boxes were shutdown during a power failure. They live in a telco closet, outside, and not climate controlled. We lost power in that part of the city a couple years ago and the UPSs didn't hold out. AFAIK, they have NEVER been rebooted due to malfunctioning - just various power failures, upgrades, or routine maintenance.
They're both P3s with crappy Maxtor IDE drives and pass somewhere in the neighborhood of 2gb of network traffic per day, every day. They stay pretty busy, but are rock-solid day in and day out.
IMHO, assuming you're running proven applications on top of decent OSs (MS NT, 2K, 2K3, XP or Linux in general, etc...) you should never have to reboot. Instability I've found is virtually always attributed to bad hardware of one sort or another. One of my clients has a Windows 2000 domain controller that's been up for five years (I know, I installed it :) except for reboots for various application patches and one hard drive upgrade. It has never crashed for any reason, serving DHCP, DNS, printers, files, and Exchange 5.5 for a 50-person office.
It really bugs me that "the media" presents the idea that computers are inherently unstable, require all sorts of bizarre hardware and software workarounds, or need constant maintenance. If you are reasonably smart and invest decent money in a box, use mainstream software, it should be reliable. If it's not, you got taken, sold, or cheaped out.
My $0.02, ymmv... :D
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