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Old 5th April 2012
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Originally Posted by daemonfowl View Post
is it true that laptops are not meant for long uptimes ?
Define "long uptimes".
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how can a long uptime be detrimental to laptop hardware ?
Anymore, I typically leave my Thinkpad T43 on for nearly a month at a time. There are times when it may be off for a month, but I cycle between different laptops depending upon what I am doing. This T43 has had its hard drive replaced twice in seven years, & I am about to put in an SSD as the last replacement before retiring/selling. The current drive has developed a intermittent whine when booting, so I recognize that drive #3 needs to come out. As to whether this is "typical" behavior, I don't know. I also have not used it in the same manner all seven years either.
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is it conceivable to use a laptop as a 'light' web server (lighttpd - thttpd - cherokee - nostromo) ?
Yes, you can use any hardware to act as a server, but at some point it will fail, & even servers built for heavy use fail. The problem with all hardware is that it fails when you least expect it.

As I mentioned in a different thread of yours, the solution is to have a contingency plan to deal with the inevitable reality. If whatever you are serving is critical, you need to think about having replacement hardware on hand. If downtime is hypercritical, you need to have both hardware & scripts already written to reconfigure the server as quickly as possible.

If whatever you are serving isn't very critical, you won't need much of a contingency plan. What you need to answer to yourself is how dire is downtime, because at some point, you will have to deal with hardware failures. You will either be prepared for it or not.
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