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In the mid 2000's I had a Linux server which was part of an EFnet eggdrop network which stayed online for more than 3 years, almost 4 full years, without rebooting. Haha.

Professionally, not long, the business has always wanted to reduce the risk of a security incident infinitely more than keeping a server up without restarting.

Unprofessionally, from 2019-2023 I achieved more 1,200 days of uptime on a public facing server. The only reason is because of how risky it can be to apply updates to some machines - you never know if some boot error will pop up and require driving across town and fiddling with for several hours. Amusingly, I checked it for updates this weekend and Ubuntu (note: I really don't recommend Ubuntu, Debian is so much better in every way I know of these days? Live Patch support was expired! How that nice.

Of course, YMMV. Yolo!

Sidenote: Achieving 10 year+ uptimes with BSD isn't difficult or particularly noteworthy at all, which I find impressive.