Show HN: Server Uptime
(server-uptime.pw)30 points by dIsK 10 months ago
30 points by dIsK 10 months ago
I would imagine not anymore. I generally see them as a sign of serious tech debt at this point.
Reminds me of the long-dead uptime-project.net
On their leaderboard there was an NT4.0 machine with several years of uptime. People accused the owner of having manipulated the reporting tool, but the owner said it was just being used as a secondary DNS server internally at a company, and scheduled to be replaced as soon as the hardware fails. I don't know whether that happened before the site shut down unfortunately.
A while ago at a company selling monitoring software I deployed an updated agent out to clients and immediately a large number of their Solaris (SPARC) servers went orange or red. Pretty quickly worried about what I'd done.
But, it turned out there was a bug in our earlier agent version that wrapped the uptime at 365 days and all their servers were well over that. They'd had warnings set at a year and critical at 18 months/2 years, some high value.
I asked if they were worried, and apologized for the bug. They said it wasn't a problem and just increase the thresholds so it was all green again and they'd get around to rebooting at some point.
Second healthchecksio. Used them recently for a quick project that “just” needed status monitoring for cron tasks. Super simple to drop a curl equivalent at the start and end and important moments in the middle. Do one thing well, yadda yadda. This one seems pretty similar in scope to hcio where you can also send simple (simple!) payloads like this project as well.
The page explains how to send some data collected by some program to some host, but not what exactly that data is (uptime duration only or also load information or identifying information?) for what purpose and what that server does with it.
https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/uptimed
The uptimed package they told you to install also exists on for example FreeBSD. And from the table it looks to be available on platforms like aarch64 (64-bit ARM), and powerpc too. (Unsurprisingly, given the very straightforward-to-implement thing it does.)
So to answer your statement: No, and no.
And all the program does is keep track of the highest uptime your system has ever had. And the website takes these records from users, and presents the submitted data online.
I dont think the website is even made by the same people, probably.
https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed for the uptime max stuff that runs on your machine, and all this website asks you to do is to submit your high scores from that other tool.
The tool that they tell you to install is https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed which is open source
Are you asking the owner of this website that takes data submitted by users to open source the website? Or are you talking about the above-mentioned program you have to run, which is already open source?
Are long uptimes still a thing? Both at home and in production at work I instead strive for regular updates and restarts.