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laptops and uptime ..
Hi everybody !
is it true that laptops are not meant for long uptimes ? how can a long uptime be detrimental to laptop hardware ? is it conceivable to use a laptop as a 'light' web server (lighttpd - thttpd - cherokee - nostromo) ? Million Thanks ! |
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Define "long uptimes".
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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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@ocicat , thank you very much for your extended explanation !
I guess I am not prepared yet for any disaster .. no scripts or post-disaster plans .. I hope you'll show me where to start from .. I don't serve anything critical .. downtime is not an issue for now as I'm not serving per se , but just learning how to serve .. |
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There is no one way to come up with a contingency plan, but I will give you some points to think about. Assuming you only have one "server" you consider to be "in production":
Lastly, while I understand why your question focuses on "can this hardware be used for providing 24x7 services?", it is not necessarily the right question to ask. A better approach would be to ask "How important is my service, & how do I optimize uptime given the hardware available?" |
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Hi Ocicat ! thank you very much for these enlightening guidelines !
I have 2 spare sata disks which I sync .. when I upgrade one successfully I move to the other .. data is backed up in flash sticks as they are easily manageable .. a primitive & unprofessional manner of doing things .. setting a backup schedule is something new to me .. |
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Since the laptop only has one internal drive, I have a USB hard drive for a backup partition to store dump files, and a second USB hard drive partitioned the same as the internal drive. Then I restore the dump files to the USB drive and do an installboot, followed by editing the fstab on the USB drive. That protects me from a drive failure. I also make backups of the dump files to dvd as additional precaution. |
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Hi @gpatrick ! thank you so much for your interesting and informative post !!
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There was time when I used Macbook with OSX as a workstation at work, it used to work 130-140 days of uptime without any issues, the reason to reboot it was to apply OSX updates.
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Yet another ex-MacOSXist .. Thanks Vermaden !
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Hello,
I can see this is an old thread, but I am gonna post my story too, for the record. I use an old Lenovo ThinkPad T60 as personal home server (OpenVPN, LAMP, IRC, Mumble, etc). It runs Ubuntu 10.04 64bit (desktop edition!) and it works very nice. I have 15+ days of uptime on a regular basis, the only reasons for reboots are: kernel upgrades and electricity failures. |
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