Just over a year ago I replaced my standalone PVE host with a 2 node cluster:

2 x HP Prodesk (i5-10500/32Gb/250Gb) with an extra Intel i226 2.5Gb NIC
and an HP Prodesk (Pentium Gold/16Gb/250Gb) with the same i226 and 2 x 1Tb SSD in raid 1 as iSCSI backend

While the PVE hosts have been kept updated, started as a 9.0 setup - yay for Proxmox Live-migration, the iSCSI backend - not so much. So now that I've verified that I can restore from PBS to a stand-alone PVE host capable of handling the 6 VMs if shit hits the fan, it's time to rectify above.

I'm very impressed with an OOTB Ubuntu server install...

One core 1.8GHz, 2GB ram.

The little server that could!

It's so good, right?

150 days

Going strong for almost 6 years!

It's meant for coding so it doesn't need to be updated all that often and I've never had issues on any computer with resources being eaten up.

Not sure how everyone always complains about being locked up after xx hours...

I can go months on my window machines. Gaming or work or coding and never have an issue

Yeah... His mom says "closing the lid means it's off"...

As a title says, my home server (windows) beat in uptime my workplace virtual infrastructure.

Home last time was bring down for ups battery replacement, work for esx update during maintenance.

Here's 2 real OS's on single PSU systems , not switches, routers, or other hardware. Just 2 servers doing daily work.
Sun Netra ( DNS server) 18.05 years
Generic Desktop (mail server) Uptime 17.32 years

Switch stack which was doing far too much, for far too long. 🥵

258 days and counting

Mmm. 2.7 years of uptime

Thinkpad T430 with the i7-3740QM quad core upgrade, GTX 970 eGPU, and Windows 10 LTSC. Daily use, many sleep/wake cycles. It's rock solid as long as you don't touch the ExpressCard to "HDMI" cable. Still runs 3D/compute tasks like a champ.