A couple of weeks ago I took ClanBase.com’s old DB server offline. The server (Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz, 6GB memory) was a workhorse for sure and required little maintenance during it’s production time.
The final #uptime was:
05:29:04 up 794 days, 22:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
It actually amazes me that we never ran into a problem with this server even with the amount of high traffic we were throwing at it. I forget it’s average QPS, but it was around 300 on average and that’s with caching enabled. I think over it’s 2 year life span I had to restart MySQL maybe 3 times. Hopefully this new DB server has the same track record 