Amazon.com EC2 instance lasted nearly 3 years
67.202.27.129: The oldest EC2 Instance in History?
Back in September 2007 I began to play with an emerging service from Amazon.com called the “Elastic Compute Cloud.” I pulled out my credit card, signed up, and lit a new Xen server in about 5 minutes. That server lived for years at 67.202.27.129. I used it for my personal blog, scottpenberthy.com, as well as several sites that erupted from nighttime dreams of entrepreneurial hackery.
Yesterday I ran rsync to copy the local files to my computer, making sure I had the latest and greatest. Uh oh. Near the end of rsync the disk activity started to spike, CPU spiked, and then rsync died. I tried to resuscitate the patient several times, cycling through several reboots. No joy. SSH stopped responding. I officially declared it dead at 11pm this morning.
Who knows? Maybe Amazon finally sunset the server hosting my virtual instance. It was nearly 3 years old, after all. Still, I’m impressed. Who would’ve thought that a virtual instance would live so long? I’m going to miss you, good ol’ 67.202.27.129.
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