tldr: can i run a BBB for three years?

I'm about to fly a BBB (w the latest debian) high into the rafters at a 
space in Denver.

It will control 1440 leds over SPI from pixel data sent over UDP via OPC.

This is all very exciting for me and things have been running fairly 
smoothly and the community support and blogs have been enormously helpful.

Now i'm kind of freaking out bc this thing should ideally run as stably as 
any light fixture and i'm not sure a good way to really test that kind of 
thing.  

the sub one-minute boot up time seems acceptible enough, so the client can 
always reboot it, but then what does that do the filesystem?

i've started looking into logrotate to keep the disk cleared, but there is 
still the question how many read/write cycles will the eMMC accept before 
drama happens?

I plan to have a private network running so i should be able to login to 
the BBB for some kind of maintenance and troubleshooting. do i run a long 
(100ft) serial cable? and usb cable as well?

im tempted to put it online so i can check from afar, but i feel that 
invites all kinds of new room for disaster and abuse. 

i realize these are more debian/sys-admin/collo questions than BBB 
specific, but i thought there might be some specific examples of people 
doing this type of thing or suggestions from this group for what to check 
and lookout for.

thanks for your consideration, questions, and suggestions!

-matt

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