From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 01:00:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812E210656A1 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmarshall@ahm-inc.com) Received: from mail.clearvoipcalling.com (ip-66-235-250-52.sterlingnetwork.net [66.235.250.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FF28FC3F for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmarshall@ahm-inc.com) Received: from [192.168.50.5] (host-216-9-190-113.orbitelcom.com [216.9.190.113]) by mail.clearvoipcalling.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DEB119C1C; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:00:27 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <2F5A85A9-3C1C-4328-9D4C-8722B3FDB2A1@ahm-inc.com> From: Chad Marshall To: Frank Shute In-Reply-To: <20081008223925.GB97321@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-33-393703195 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:00:38 -0700 References: <20081008223925.GB97321@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:00:41 -0000 --Apple-Mail-33-393703195 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap/ squirrelmail (60+ accounts and 30-40 forwards) mailserver with apache/ php/mysql. Also use it as a slave authoritative nameserver for over 100 zones (one zone with a 60sec TTL on a high volume production website) as well. Plus use it as a primary nameserver for our entire office (300+ workstations). I was lazy with it (Upgrading or Replacing) and when it hit a year, I decided to hold off doing anything with it as I wanted to see how long I could let it go. It's a celeron 2.4ghz server with 512m Ram and has been a champ server in it's performance and stability. I use CentOS for most of my other systems and find that as easy as it is for administration and upgrading, it lacks FreeBSD's performance. With the memory leaks that CentOS has, I usually have to end up restarting the machine(s). With FreeBSD I can just restart the services, and got my memory back and reduce the amount of swap being used. Regardless of the first email I got back (Which was a little rude), I will continue to run this server as long as I can and monitor the security risks using DenyHosts and other security measures. Thanks, --Apple-Mail-33-393703195 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the >> past but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2 >> years tomorrow. I plan on putting on my blog but as it doesn't have >> much reach but wanted to share with you since your community has made >> this possible. Please indicate where I could post this to have a bit >> more reach or if you'd like to put a link to my blog, I'd be more >> than >> happy to provide that. >> >> >> Best Regards, >> > > Sorry to rain on your parade: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2008-October/005719.html > > > Regards, > > -- > > Frank > > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > --Apple-Mail-33-393703195--