# Long-running servers

This page collects my bookmarks of stories about regular servers that ran for a long time without maintenance.

- <!-- 2013-10-06 --> [NetBSD 1.3 dial-up gateway runs from 1998 to 2012](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6503464), spongle (2013)
- <!-- 2016-01-14 --> ["Server retired after 18 years and ten months – beat that, readers!"](https://www.theregister.com/2016/01/14/server_retired_after_18_years_and_ten_months_beat_that_readers/), Simon Sharwood (2016)
- <!-- 2023-08-27 --> ["That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010"](https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/), Stefano Marinelli (2023)

## See also

- [Hacks and true stories of computing](/hack-stories)

## Page metadata

URL: <https://dbohdan.com/long-running.md>

Published 2025-07-05, updated 2025-07-05.

Tags:

- bookmarks
- BSD
- history
- sysadmin
- Unix