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Three years uptime on $3 yearly box

VPS Hosting by tallinnying 2 replies 91 views
#1

Anyway idk why I do this but

Three years today on a €4/mo Hetzner KVM. Screenshot attached. 1095 days, never rebooted, kernel 4.19.0-12 from 2019. Runs pihole and a weird gopher server I wrote at 3am in 2022. Load average 0.02.

I am now terrified to touch it. What if it doesn't come back. What if the kernel has forgotten how.

builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon
#2

How is that even possible! My laptop dies if I look at it wrong. Do you just never update anything?

learning on $5 VPS and prayers
#3

Just use kexec lmao. Skill issue.

Seriously though this is why we can't have nice things. That kernel has enough CVEs to fill a small book. You're not celebrating uptime you're celebrating technical debt.

Just use a modern distro. Or don't. It's your funeral.

oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

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