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In October 2008, I was tasked to setup a dashboard/collaboration site for our team. Liferay was the obvious choice for me because of my past experience with this excellent product. It took me just two working days to have a usable solution for our group with some minor changes being done to the look and feel as well as the out of box permissions. The intranet site went live in late October and I have had to do little maintenance other than taking backups for the MySQL database and the CMS document folders. We use the Wiki, Journal, RSS and other CMS feature a lot.

Today morning I got a few emails from my colleagues informing that the site was down. It turns out the lab machine was down due to a power outage. So once the system was up I logged in and checked the Tomcat logs and it appears the last startup of this Liferay instance was when the system went live. Amazing, thats ~9months of service without interruption and if not for the power outage it could have been longer.

We have about 30 people using it as a collaboration platform. Very very impressive reliability with so little maintenance. It speaks a lot about the kind of engineering effort that goes into Liferay.