Regular AntiqueAirfield.com website surfers may have noticed two service interruptions in the past week. This is unusual and I can find no software reason for the operating system crashes, which usually runs for 6-9 months at a stretch with no issues.
That points to the hardware. The server is about five and half years old, which is high time for commodity server hardware. In airplane terms, the server has reached TBO, it is making metal in the screen, and it is time for an urgent major overhaul before something more dramatic happens.
Therefore I will be rebuilding the server over the next few days, most likely as a cloud-hosted virtual machine for those who are interested. Although it is unlikely, the hardware may fail catastrophically before I finish and the site may go down for several days. If so I apologize in advance.
