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Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

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  1. doublerabbit · · focus · HN ↗
    Can we post uptime stats instead? I just axed two of my servers from colocation a couple of days ago. Sad to see them go, six years of FreeBSD.

        root@vixen:/fountain/crystals #                                                         
    *** FINAL System shutdown message from dblrabbit@  ***                                     
    System going down IMMEDIATELY                                                  
    System shutdown time has arrived
    root@vixen:/fountain/crystals # uptime
     3:05PM  up 1931 days, 18:13, 0 users, load averages: 1.01, 1.03, 1.41

    root@cookie:/srv/users/dblrabbit # uptime
     3:07PM  up 1931 days, 16:59, 1 user, load averages: 1.76, 1.17, 1.06
    root@cookie:/srv/users/dblrabbit # poweroff
    Shutdown NOW!
    poweroff: [pid 47177]
    1. charcircuit · · focus · HN ↗
      No since kernel live patching is not universal it promotes bad security practices to maximize the uptime of a single server.
      1. chuckadams · · focus · HN ↗
        Not to mention being completely useless in the face of FaaS or just autoscaling.
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