I tried telling this to my manager for years. He saw it as a “X days since we last had a problem and needed to reboot the server” and took pride in it.
We finally shut it down at over 5 years of uptime. Some docker containers had been running for 4 years straight.
Yes, that means what you think it does concerning update policies. Yes, the server and some containers were exposed to the internet. No, the backups were never tested.
Having high uptime is not the flex you think it is
You shouldn’t have uptime higher than 60 days
Yeah these days a high uptime is a mark of shame, not a badge of honour.
Maybe they’re kexec-ing.
uptime should be handled by the kernel, so a kexec “soft-reboot” would still reset the uptime.
I tried telling this to my manager for years. He saw it as a “X days since we last had a problem and needed to reboot the server” and took pride in it.
We finally shut it down at over 5 years of uptime. Some docker containers had been running for 4 years straight.
Yes, that means what you think it does concerning update policies. Yes, the server and some containers were exposed to the internet. No, the backups were never tested.