Re: Weakest point of a server?

[Teun Vink <teun@moonblade.net>]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 14:13, Jason Lim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering what kind of failures you experience with long-running
> hardware.
> 
> Most of us run servers with very long uptimes (we've got a server here
> with uptime approaching 3 years, which is not long compared to some, but
> we think it is pretty good!).
[...]


This is only from my own experiences at the ISP I work for. Old machines
(~5 year) which we used for testing purposes usually had problems with
the harddisk and/or the fans. Motherboards, NIC's and CPU's usually
worked fine in test setups...



Teun