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 
I feel like I’ve done something incredibly stupid now, yesterday I decided ‘hey lets switch the fileserver to CentOS’ . The reasons I decided to switch away from BSD on my fileserver was so I could be on the same platform as work and I actually like this OS for a server. I made the call the other day to eventually have all servers for work (currently around 25worldwide) switched over to CentOS from Fedora Core and RedHat 9. CentOS is just RHEL (Redhat Enterprise Linux) stripped of all mention of Redhat and all other trademark content removed. I gotta say, this is what I remember linux being like. Stupid me though decides to change the OS on a 1.5TB fileserver over without actually making sure Linux can read AND write to a UFS2 filesystem…. definitely my bad. I stupidly thought linux would support reading and writing to that filesystem so I could leave the RAID array alone. Oh well, another 3 hours till a 600GB data transfer is done and I can get cracking on the reinstall.