My longest serving server, an old Dell desktop with a 430MHz Celeron CPU and 384MB of RAM sitting in my bedroom, has finally succumbed to an accidental flip of a power switch on the power strip, while cleaning this evening. I was just... moving the power strip to clean behind it, and somehow the power switch just... flipped. It's a cheap power strip with a cheap rocker style switch. I think the plastic just wore out, since the switch seems to be very loose. Jostling it a bit to move it must have caused it to rock just far enough to break the connection long enough to shut everything down. Anyways, the "server" still works, it powered on just fine, but gone is it's 556 day uptime. I don't even use the server for anything any more since I have a fleet of VPSes, but I was trying to see how long I could keep it running without rebooting. I had hoped to get to at least 2 years, but alas, it was not meant to be.
RIP server 1
[nick@server:~]$ uptime 18:16:15 up 556 days, 1:03, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01