Uptime Project

[Martijn]

I just got the briefcase up and running. Dead silent and invisible, lets see how long it takes until the parents switch it off

[ewsforos]

100 days for my XP box

Well done!

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

24 days on my XP box and freakin 103 on my smoothwall

[jimwah]

cheers ewsforos! Keep at it guys

[ewsforos]

^---- LOL

[jimwah]

Disaster - some kind of power blip at work Gave me a chance to do some much needed maintenance on this box tho', and that heap of updates too! Will anyone beat the 125 day XS record for WinXP?

[SoulGG]

My network storage dump will It's a laptop with about 3.5hours of battery life, it's connected to a UPS with about 2hours of battery life as well Soon to have 3TB of storage

It's in for the long haul!

[ewsforos]

LOL SoulGG

Sorry about your box jimwah... was doing great for a wintendo box

PS: In 20 days we have a birthday party! (see sig)

[jimwah]

Dammit SoulGG! It's looking good for you taking the throne with all that battery backup goodness, but just make sure you dont work that laptop too hard - I wouldn't want it to overheat & crash or anything

We've gotta move office in January too, I might have to shift this project to a machine at home - mostly Wintendo-2k boxes, of which 1 must've been up 3 weeks to a month hopefully - I'll have a look later on.

Gratz to ewsforos on the upcoming birthday too Party hat at the ready.

[SoulGG]

Hehe, 1 year celebration

[ben rogers]

Disaster - some kind of power blip at work Gave me a chance to do some much needed maintenance on this box tho', and that heap of updates too! Will anyone beat the 125 day XS record for WinXP?

I can beat that, had 268 days out of my dual p3 667 running windows xp sp2 but had to have a new carpet fitted in the room so it had to go off.

Last screenshotted it at 205 days mind.

[SoulGG]

Needed the laptop for work purposes so I had to shut her down last night! Good thing it was at 72 days and not 172 I might have had to buy another laptop for just that reason

Should have another computer to replace my laptop though. Pretty soon

[jimwah]

Still shows that machine as up on the stats?! shame about the shutdown man, at least I'm one step closer to retaking the XP uptime title

[SoulGG]

I'll leave it there until I get another box on the same account. then i'll have to delete the time to get another computer onto the same name.

[ewsforos]

*singing* Happy birthday to youuuuu, happy birthday to youuuuu *singing*



(check sig)

PS: I will be away on holidays for a while. Having said that, I'll try to check on the forum, nontheless, every now and then

[SoulGG]

congrats man I'll catch up...........one day there's bound to be one server in my work place that's been up for that long!

[jimwah]

Happy Birthday mate, have a good break over christmas too

[k0nsl]

We need more active members with good uptime

Happy Christmas.

-k0nsl

[SoulGG]

Dear Uptime-Community,

After the last very successful 5 years with about 1.7 million data records and
more than 20000 active users, we would like to say "thank you" to everyone who
helped the project grow to what it is right now.

+++ We are very sad to say it, but we decided to close down the Uptime-Project
on the 1st of March 2007. +++

Surely this wasn't an easy decision because of all the time we invested in the
project but we don't have enough time to keep the site alive. Another problem
is, and always was, the increasing costs for servers and traffic. (Thanks to our
sponsors!)

Please shut down all the uptime-clients you're running because we can't keep the
domain name forever and we don't want somebody to get his hands on the user data
the clients are sending.

Why don't we give away the project for free and let somebody else run it?
That question is easy to answer. With more than 20000 users, there is a lot of
user data in our database (for example the email-addresses). We don't want
somebody to get his hands on this data to maintain the user.s privacy.

Again, thank your very much for competing in the Uptime-Project!


Sincerely the Uptime-Project staff


Sucks to see it go

[jimwah]

Nooooo! I was just contemplating getting the client running again on my work PC (we've moved office & got new machines recently). It's a shame really 'cos there was some amazing records on there, but I can understand what they're saying on the privacy front.

Hopefully some passionate ex-Uptimer will create an Uptime Project II, and a new client to go with it I hope at least.

>>edit: typo

[eddieate]

damn did they ever make an OSX client?
Ed.

[jimwah]

I suppose you might have had a chance of getting the linux client to run Sadly, its academic now.

[__Miguel_]

Hi there. I just stumbled upon this thread. Unfortunately, I'm too late to even try breaking an uptime world record, but I can tell you my last W2K3 socket 478 Celeron 2.6GHz network gateway (I've upgraded it to an 805 last September) once had an uptime of nearly 150 days. And even then, I only rebooted it because I wanted to patch the OS (it IS a Windows machine, after all, I started getting worried about security flaws... lol)

I just wanted to point out that 1) there is no need for fancy hardware (as it was already pointed out). I was running the server on an Asus P4P800-VM motherboard and 3x256MB DDR-400 OEM sticks. I didn't even have an UPS (good power lines, thankfully).

And 2) Windows boxes may not be as good as *nix systems on major uptime world records, but it IS possible to get great uptimes from them.

Cheers

Miguel