So I managed to upgrade my server from CentOS 5 to Ubuntu 11.10, here’s the uptime result before the upgrade:
[jerome@li10-25 ~]$ date Fri Dec 9 07:41:37 EST 2011
[jerome@li10-25 ~]$ uptime 07:41:39 up 529 days, 9:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
529 days up and never had a problem. Linux power :D