Not so high because of frequent updates and reboots for security

So you never apply patches or updates, that seems like an odd thing to be proud of but different strokes for different folks I guess.

I remember this story from about twenty years back hitting the news:

https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/

Missing Novell server discovered after four years

In the kind of tale any aspiring BOFH would be able to dine out on for months, the University of North Carolina has finally located one of its most reliable servers - which nobody had seen for FOUR years.

One of the university's Novell servers had been doing the business for years and nobody stopped to wonder where it was - until some bright spark realised an audit of the campus network was well overdue.

According to a report by Techweb it was only then that those campus techies realised they couldn't find the server. Attempts to follow network cabling to find the missing box led to the discovery that maintenance workers had sealed the server behind a wall.

My fridge has been on since it was plugged in. It’s also offline.

PBX admins are laughing in the background as their uptime is almost 4k days, running CentOS 5

Personally I am shutting down my server in the midnights to make it relax for a bit. #MentallySupportingOurHomeServers Butt yes, I still agree with the comments above, even if theserver is not directly connected on Internet, upgrading is mandstory nowadays. Bots are everywhere, especially nowadays with all of these AI tools.

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About 6 year uptime on one machine before we shut it down and relocated.

Currently 60 days

When the power goes out my nas shuts down and also for updates

I think my first raspberry pi got to 500-ish days before we had a power outage

I don't know it depends on the patches really I have automatic updates so I guess a few months would probably be the longest between kernel patches

A month probably. I have to reboot it mainly for updates

Many years ago working for a monitoring software company someone had found a bug in the uptime monitoring rules where they reset after a year.

It was patched and I upgraded one client and their whole Solaris plant immediately went red and alerted. They told me to double it to two years and some stuff was still alerting.

They just said they’d try to get around to rebooting it, but it was all stable.

Everywhere else I’ve worked enforces regular reboots.

I think I got up to 300 or so days on my old Athlon XP Gentoo server. I have "upgraded" since then and my current server can't go more than 2 days. I have an arduino connected to the motherboards reset button pin that resets it whenever the bash script that communicates with the arduino stops running but even that somehow still crashes at least once a week and needs manual intervention.

My father ran an HP-UX server that did inventory management (not internet connected) that had an uptime greater than 10 years before it was migrated.