[Fwd: Re: [nycbug-talk] FreeBSD Testimonials and Support]

[steve Rieger]

On Apr 12, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Darryl Wisneski - ski wrote:

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>
> steve Rieger wrote:
>> the company i work for, uses fbsd for to host our web sites, for 
>> mysql clusters, for ldap, and mail
>> last month we got over 2 million hits on our web server, and the damn 
>> thing never complained. the last time we rebooted was about 2 years 
>> ago. feel free to call me if you need more info
>
> Its funny, the sysadmin has pride in high uptimes as testimony to wise
> systems adminstration, and running current, stable & bugfree code.  
> This
> sense of pride is at odds with the developer of that same code.  The
> developer has pride in a low uptime as it usually means they are 
> running
> current, stable, & bugfree code.
>
> At my work, we have a regularly heavily beaten FBSD 4.1 box with 
> uptime 3.5 years.  We don't do much development it seems...
>
>

we do a fair amount of dev work, the stats i was reflecting upon was 
for our production boxes.........