300+ Days, wow, that's a nice figure, even Ebay has more downtime than that!

300+ days is amazing. I have to reboot my computer every two hours!

Remember, it's a server and not a home pc.

That would have to depend on whether you use Windows...

But according to Microsoft, windows servers are 99.999, or something... I guess if you turn on a windows box and don't run any applications in it, you might able to get some decent uptime.

Windows 9x/ME will crash after about a 3 days anyway...that's kinda pushing it tho.

2000/NT/XP can stay up for a while, but Linux will stay up forever. :)

Interestly, a friend and I found out some info about this the other day. A while ago, (I think about the time of the release of Win 2K) Bill Gates hiself said that the longest Windows 4.x (that's Windows 95, 98, ME) has ever run without crashing (this is in idle, with absolutely nothing but Windows running) was about 47.5 days. That is very sad indeed. It was probably Windows 95.

That IS sad, especially with nothing else running. What happened to "quality" these days?

I guess you mean the i386 version as the PowerPC version (kernel types) crashed like every day on my iMac (they can only run the PowerPC version). It seems that most forms of UNIX on them crashes alot (even MacOS X 10.1.1 although it likes to freeze more).

If you look at the advertisements, it's a lot more than just Windows. I don't have one in front of me, but it's an entire solution. It's talking about very specific hardware, UPS's, etc. I haven't used any MS server products since NT 4, but from my experiences, NT 4 with IIS is a terrible platform for web application development. We were using ColdFusion, and it is very easy to crash it and have to restart IIS and sometimes Windows. And this was on very expensive Compaq servers.

You are indeed correct that you should not attempt to keep a normal Intel or AMD system running for more than a year. In fact, I've even seen an Intel box running for a year (not running Windows) and when the owner turned it off, it would not get back on. Its CPU, NIC and memory all went wacko.

Instead, try to use some other system like a SUN T1 or something to serve data. I have good XPeriences with that kind of equipment. So kids, buy a SUN Netra T1 with a couple of Sun Ray 1's to have a decent network.

But that's just my point of view.

Hmm...Because my computer has been powered-on and running for many many months. I've had to reboot, but not a power-off. And it runs Windows.

FIRE BAD!!!

Money Goooood!

Beer GOOD! Grabasses BAD!

BEER GOOD!
RUM GOODER!

I like candy!

GOLDFISH, GOLDFISH, GOLDFISH, GOLDFISH, GOLDFISH.

Was there any damage done? Did anyone get hurt? These are the things we need to be worrying about.

Notice that it was in the basement of the building where ticalc.org is hosted - not necessarily in someone's house. This could be an office building for all I know...

It's a 13 floor office building, yes. (The fire was in the sublevel 2 basement)

Just wondering: Is the thirteenth floor actually numbered 13?