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by mattpavelle 555 days ago
I went down a shallow rabbit hole (turns out https://www.reddit.com/r/uptimeporn/ exists ... of course) and found this:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa...

(6430 days as of 2 weeks ago)

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There used to be a website where people could create an account and report their system uptimes. It even had its a client to automate the reporting.
> 6430 days...

Wow wow wow. I had one that nearly reached 10 years of uptime: a dedicated server at OVH. At some point I just kept it to see how long it'd stay operational without any reboot.

Now, kids, don't try this at home: of course it wasn't secure. At some point it got hacked and that's when I cancelled the subscription for that one dedicated server. I still have other servers at OVH.

But yeah: I made it to 3400 days of uptime. Something like that. Don't remember the price of that one server but it wasn't expensive.

Let say it was an... Experiment.