Your highest uptime servers

I forgot I had Observium installed on a RamNode VPS that is monitoring part of the vpsBoard fleet. Although I had forgotten about it's existence I was happy to see it still running and collecting the following stats:

My top 3 uptime VPSes:

1. DigitalOcean -- Piwik / Analytic server -- 1y 58d 11h 46m 25s
2. AnyNode -- Backup backup server -- 278 days, 20h 34m 6s
3. Hostigation -- Billing server for advertisers  -- 183 days, 14h 22m 6s

Not bad. How about you all?

Motion to exclude VPS's from the discussion of "uptime" because there's this little thing called suspending guests and for all you know the host node of your VPS that's showing  the 900 days uptime when you run the uptime command could have been rebooted daily.

edited to add: my VPS with the  lowest uptime percentage over the past 45 days is actually a Linode VPS in Tokyo with 2 outages (30 minutes and 43 minutes) and 2 host node reboots due to unspecified "physical hardware issues".

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I forgot I had Observium installed

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Do you have email alerts enabled?

My highest uptime right now is this box:


 

DomainBop said:

edited to add: my VPS with the  lowest uptime percentage over the past 45 days is actually a Linode VPS in Tokyo with 2 outages (30 minutes and 43 minutes) and 2 host node reboots due to unspecified "physical hardware issues".

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'tokyo277', no doubt?

k0nsl said:

'tokyo277', no doubt?

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[SIZE=13.3px]tokyo220[/SIZE]

730 days in Colo@ Los Angeles, CA and counting.

ispirto@ispirto-desktop:~$ uptime
07:21:59 up 250 days, 13:13, 33 users, load average: 0.55, 0.49, 0.47

Uptime on a server is easy. Beat that ^

My best uptime server used to be Evorack up until the past 3 months where their uptime and network connectivity has just gone to shit as far as reliability:

 

Evorack - 01:04:04 up 14 days, 10:26,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

Currently:

 

Front Range Hosting (Total Server Solutions / LA) - 21:30:53 up 347 days, 22:51,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

ServerAstra (Hungary) - 00:32:21 up 346 days,  4:57,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

Inception Hosting (Netherlands) - 04:15:22 up 345 days,  2:58,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

 

GetKVM (Provider Service / Moldova) - 00:25:16 up 308 days,  1:12,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

anyNode - 00:48:21 up 296 days, 13:01,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
 

XenPower (Prometeus) - 00:41:54 up 287 days,  6:52,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

HOST1PLUS (Brazil) - 00:37:03 up 227 days, 16:52,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

FlipHost - 08:31:11 up 166 days, 11:57,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

VPS Networks (South Africa) - 04:49:06 up 163 days,  6:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

NewHost.ro - 01:05:18 up 157 days, 22:19,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

RamNode -  ATL: 00:29:37 up 148 days, 21:10,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

          NYC: 00:31:26 up 134 days, 20:13,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

 

MiniVPS - 08:30:13 up 124 days, 19:36,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


 

Cheers!

I typically don't worry too much about uptime. Sure, it can be used as a measure of the stability of the host node, but it can be faked. And anyway, I voluntarily reboot my VMs frequently, for instance after the shellshock bug was patched I updated and rebooted many of my servers. Because of this, it's not surprising that my VM with the highest uptime is one I had pretty much forgotten about. Back in January, NinjaHawk was bought out by tmzVPS, taking my server with them. I was displeased with the switch, so before it happened I transferred everything to another server. When the transfer e-mail came through, I archived it along with the rest of my VPS welcome e-mails. Well, I just now dug it out and logged in, to find:



Not all that impressive. And if I cared about this server, I'd patch and reboot it now. So yeah, I don't have a lot of uptime on my VPSes. If you cared to check, you'd see my reviews don't mention it. 

DomainBop said:

Motion to exclude VPS's from the discussion of "uptime" because there's this little thing called suspending guests and for all you know the host node of your VPS that's showing  the 900 days uptime when you run the uptime command could have been rebooted daily.

edited to add: my VPS with the  lowest uptime percentage over the past 45 days is actually a Linode VPS in Tokyo with 2 outages (30 minutes and 43 minutes) and 2 host node reboots due to unspecified "physical hardware issues".

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Haha that server doesn't have email alerts and is mostly used for data collection and analysis.  From my understanding, the actual uptime-downtime monitoring is by a different service. 

In terms of actual uptime on servers...  haha I recently have been moving more and more stuff around and getting around to doing more proper maintenance. 

But.. my best uptime server is a Prometeus 256 MB KVM which hosts my IRC server.  Here's a graph of the past two years worth of uptime.



Gotta love their service! 

vultr

backup of backup server


20:12:23 up 201 days, 10:17,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.07

ipxcore

unused

MannDude said:

I forgot I had Observium installed on a RamNode VPS that is monitoring part of the vpsBoard fleet. Although I had forgotten about it's existence I was happy to see it still running and collecting the following stats:

My top 3 uptime VPSes:

1. DigitalOcean -- Piwik / Analytic server -- 1y 58d 11h 46m 25s
2. AnyNode -- Backup backup server -- 278 days, 20h 34m 6s
3. Hostigation -- Billing server for advertisers  -- 183 days, 14h 22m 6s

Not bad. How about you all?

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How come your top uptimes arent linode, ramnode and all of that? Anynode and hostigation, whats that? 

Ninjahawk 272 days

Linode 269 days

NodeServ 233 days

Catalyst 207 days

Kimsufi: 244 Days

Bandwagonhost NL: 198 Days

Bandwagonhost AZ: 122 Days

DO: 1yr 7 days

ChicagoVPS: 86 Days

OnePound:      322 Days
Inception:        308 Days
GameTown:     269 Days
FitVPS:            180 Days
MCH:               161 Days
CrownCloud:     91 Days

Honestly, atleast every 6-12 months you should be rebooting to perform updates to your kernel / modules anyway. There is usually major updates that require a restart anyway (e.g Debian's kernel FUSE interface changes this year).

When ever I see uptimes of 180+ days, all I think of is the security nightmare / out of date system. Thats not to say an uptime of 60-90 days isn't necessarily a measure of quality. I would rather my VPS / server be up to date and secure, than having a slightly higher uptime.

splitice said:

Honestly, atleast every 6-12 months you should be rebooting to perform updates to your kernel / modules anyway. There is usually major updates that require a restart anyway (e.g Debian's kernel FUSE interface changes this year).


When ever I see uptimes of 180+ days, all I think of is the security nightmare / out of date system. Thats not to say an uptime of 60-90 days isn't necessarily a measure of quality. I would rather my VPS / server be up to date and secure, than having a slightly higher uptime.

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I try to keep my servers all up to date, but I know downtime will occur so I just wait for something like an outage to happen so that the servers will/can be updated then. (unplanned outage because instant maintenance window. )

Not exactly a server but:

Alexander-iMac:~ Alexander$ uptime

11:40 up 74 days, 2 users, load averages: 2.23 1.82 1.70

Alexander-iMac:~ Alexander$ 

18:41:47 up 360 days,  5:38,  1 user,  load average: 1.42, 1.39, 1.10

!
 

dave@graphs [~]$ uptime

 1:34PM  up 833 days, 23:13, 4 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00

TheLinuxBug said:

My best uptime server used to be Evorack up until the past 3 months where their uptime and network connectivity has just gone to shit as far as reliability:

 

Evorack - 01:04:04 up 14 days, 10:26,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

 

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@TheLinuxBug, as has been discussed in great detail between ourselves on LET, the last ticket you opened was 100 days ago, and we are unable to help you in any way unless you ask for help.

We love our customers, we love our jobs, we love our servers, and we love our network. We do cartwheels on a daily basis to make sure that everything is running smoothly. Our network and nodes and monitored 24/7. Each individual node is sent 100 ICMP (ping) packets every 30 seconds between datacentres; the response is measured and if the results are not acceptable, we take swift action. That goes for both IPv4 and IPv6. Network issues are very obvious to us: Literally, PRTG alarm bells sounds when a red light goes off!

Going by your constant bumping of the other thread in LET, no-one else has seemed to have any issues. Spirt was having issues, but he hasn't been a customer for over a year now..

I am not denying that you have had problems, and I just asking, please, if you have issues contact us so that we can help you