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by jedberg 1191 days ago
> and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine.

Haha yep! That was our trick! FreeBSD FTW. That box ended up having an uptime over 1000 days before we had to power it down to move it.

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> before we had to power it down to move it.

Reminds me of a story where someone had to move a server physically without downtime. The story is on Reddit, but if you really want to read it now there's an archived version. And there's a Hacker News thread too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta...

https://web.archive.org/web/20221224195636/https://www.reddi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243