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Servers are cattle. Take it out the back and shoot it then find a less terrible server.
Uh... there's absolutely nothing wrong with the hardware, it all works exactly as it should. It's just systemd's insistence on rearranging things that aren't broken, and then changing how you fix the problems it created.
Have you considered Devuan a fork of Debian specifically intended to remove systemd.
I have actually. I saw the post for their latest release earlier today and had been seriously considering switching over. This new machine is to replace my existing firewall as the old one has gone through several upgrades since Squeeze, so I'm trying to get something set up to rebuild everything from a clean installation and then I can simply swap out the hardware (and swap it back real quick if something doesn't work right away).
Tell that to windows sysadmins. Windows would reaaaaally like to be treated like a pet. I feel for them.