Mine is in the picture: 1544 days and counting!

It’s an EC2 nano instance that’s used only as a monitor for a few services that are running inside my VPN. It has served me well over all these years!

EDIT: before everyone starts screaming about “security”:
It’s not internet facing and no port is opened, all it does is fire up a notification if/when something doesn’t reply.

Even in the unlikely scenario that someone gain access to it that means that my VPN is already compromised, and I’ve got bigger problems to worry about.

  • tal@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I remember this story from about twenty years back hitting the news:

    https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/

    Missing Novell server discovered after four years

    In the kind of tale any aspiring BOFH would be able to dine out on for months, the University of North Carolina has finally located one of its most reliable servers - which nobody had seen for FOUR years.

    One of the university’s Novell servers had been doing the business for years and nobody stopped to wonder where it was - until some bright spark realised an audit of the campus network was well overdue.

    According to a report by Techweb it was only then that those campus techies realised they couldn’t find the server. Attempts to follow network cabling to find the missing box led to the discovery that maintenance workers had sealed the server behind a wall.

  • WxFisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    So you never apply patches or updates, that seems like an odd thing to be proud of but different strokes for different folks I guess.

    • abeltramo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      It’s not internet facing and no port is opened, all it does is fire up a notification if/when something doesn’t reply.

      Even in the unlikely scenario that someone gain access to it (nobody did in the last ~4 years) that means that my VPN is already compromised and I’ve got bigger problems to worry about.

      • Makussu@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Makes sense but even then i would just run automatic updates every few months. Just to keep best practice. Nonetheless cool uptime, now do 10 years :)