Longest-Serving Web Server?

frisket asks: "The Sun IPX formerly known as curia.ucc.ie (now imbolc.ucc.ie) entered TBL's CERN main menu in 1992 to serve the CURIA project (now CELT) as a search engine (running PAT). The same machine is still doing the same job, and we're trying to find out if it really is the longest continuously-serving Web server. Does anyone know if any of the other links from that page at the time (has anyone a copy even?) are which are still served by the same hardware?"

reality.sgi.com

[Toraz Chryx]

Didn't SGI's reality server stay up for 9 and a bit years or so? (and then they took it down)

Re:reality.sgi.com

[green pizza]

Reality was a webserver for about seven and a half years, but before that it was a file/email screw-around server for employees. Started its life as a PowerSeries machine and with lots of duct tape, chewing gum, and bailing wire, eventually received enough upgrades and parts over the years to became basicly a Challenge L.

http://reality.sgi.com still has a few blurbs. The same server should be online again soon as http://reality.exsgi.org.

And really, unless SGI gets off its ass, reality won't be the only webserver at SGI going offline...

Re:reality.sgi.com

[green pizza]

reality is up for approx. 10 billion years now and AFAIK it's still running
Yeah, but most of us are out of touch with it...

Slashdot Effect + Oldest Server = Dead Server

[jaydho]

You do the math.

Re:Slashdot Effect + Oldest Server = Dead Server

[ReidMaynard]

heh... actually, I also have an IPX running as a web server. I posted the url in a chat room; three guys hit it...crashed apache...but for just me, it's fine...

Upgrades?

[Anonymous Coward]

That long without a remotely exploitable kernel
bug? Wow.

Re:Upgrades?

[frisket]

> I thought that too. But it says "longest > continuously-serving Web server" which I > would think means without downtime.

I should have said "continually" not "continuously". Of course there is downtime although it's rare apart from being slashdotted :-)

It still seems to be the longest-serving system tho.

///Peter

Well...

[Artana Niveus Corvum]

This isn't quite what you're wanting, but my father stubbornly refuses to upgrade away from the 8086 that we've had since before time began. Yay for DOS! No by the way, it isn't a web server, but it still works every time he flips it on.

How about the missing server?

[innocent_white_lamb]

http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S 0012

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-05/su nf lash.20010521.3.html

NetCraft?

[Atzanteol]

NetCraft [netcraft.com] has some statistics on this Here [netcraft.com].

Though this is only for as long as NetCraft has been surveying, and may not be completely accurate. But they have lotsa goodies there!

Re:NetCraft?

[green pizza]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

Prepare to lose all karma... anyone else find it interesting that the OSes on the top-uptime list are all *BSD and SiliconGraphics IRIX? No Windows here!