As part of our ongoing effort to encourage ourselves to provide you with a reliable, robust hosting environment, we've installed a little service called uptimed. It tracks the system's longest stretches of continuous operation, and sends the sysadmins little congratulatory messages when certain milestones have been passed. You can see what the record uptimes are and where the current stretch ranks by typing "uprecords" at the command line; my hope is that there will be only one line in the output for a long time. Other systems I maintain have hit 430 days of continuous uptime without sweating too much, and it's my sincere hope that the new clone.spore.org will make this possible for us as well.
Posted by forrest at April 12, 2003 04:17 AM