I've been running between 300-500 Apache Solr search cores continuously for almost 5 years, starting with 1.4, migrating up to now 4.10.4 (5 and 6 are in the works), all with around 99.98% uptime (averaged on all the servers over time). ![]() restart on fail) services, and simplicity in everything. I learned early on, it's all about proactive monitoring, 'self healing' (e.g. I haven't advertised either except for mentions here and there and having them in some of my social media profiles, but I've learned so much from running both-and even turned some of that knowledge into a book that gives decent passive income on top! Up to about 25 DigitalOcean droplets now, also all managed via Ansible/Jenkins, and it has a few hundred clients (a couple who have been stable clients for over 5 years, and a few very large names that made me realize even a side project can be stable/good enough for 'big companies' to trust them). I also have run Hosted Apache Solr for almost double the time, and it actually earns a decent secondary income. Everything was automated via Ansible early on, and I don't have to touch anything except for patching/updating from time to time. ![]() Just a few updates to the Drupal front-end/UI, and the Node.js backend every year (maybe 20 hours total).Ĭosts are incredibly low, as I have ~15 low end box-type servers running as check servers interacting with Drupal via a private API, and one DigitalOcean droplet running prod, with a hot backup droplet. ![]() ), and it's been earning around $2k/year with almost no maintenance. I made Server Check.in 3.5 years ago (HN announcement thread:
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