The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.

For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;

  • HAProxy
  • KeepaliveD

Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.

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    21 hours ago

    Debian, uptime right now on my server is 59 days and that’s just because that was when we had a power outage longer than the UPS could keep up with

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      14 hours ago

      A couple of decades back I was a Systems Manager at a small campus, and personally admin’d one of the servers. There was a server in the room that had a 3 year uptime when I left. May have been running longer after that.

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        11 hours ago

        Just some small consumer grade APC that I got like ten years ago. It’s basically good enough to withstand quick blips but I have it set to send a shutdown command to the server when the batteries fall below 90% because they last about as long as it takes to cleanly power down the machine.