Ok...FYI
... here's what I Know, and observed, and was told, more or less, up through Yesterday....
In Early Summer, the Blitzortung network operatio and processing, was moved to the more powerful servers which host Lightning maps (Tobi's). This enabled EGON to begin replacing and upgrading the aging Blitzortung servers, and upgrade a lot of the processing with additional algorithms, etc.... The entire operation ran from LMO until about 3 weeks ago, when gradual phase in to upgraded, restructured Blitzortung Servers (Egon's)
Almost immediately, I noted some issues with the Blitzortung Servers, the Forum and LMO databases
...on a 'new' station's operator info not updating in the Forum and on LMO.... this was really subtle, and mostly not noticed... I called it to Egon and Tobi's attention, and it became quite a 'puzzle' for a few days... then we noticed that the strokes information from stations was 'strange'.... about all you could say for a couple of days... "strange"
... it was very subtle at first... and Egon was trying to track it down, when he discovered that a major issue was developing... .Last Saturday, it appeared that database queries showed an outrageous spike, so to speak, and on Sunday one of the drives suffered a 'spasm', heart attack, or whatever... the rest is history, so to speak...
...The problem however appears to extends further than just this, or did with the last update Egon sent me...
Best I've got for now, and I hope my inferences, and reporting is correct...
Cheers
Mike