The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.

For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;

  • HAProxy
  • KeepaliveD

Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.

  • btsax@reddthat.com
    3·
    9 days ago

    Debian, uptime right now on my server is 59 days and that’s just because that was when we had a power outage longer than the UPS could keep up with

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      9 days ago

      A couple of decades back I was a Systems Manager at a small campus, and personally admin’d one of the servers. There was a server in the room that had a 3 year uptime when I left. May have been running longer after that.