Possible server downtime

The main weather-watch server has reported some errors which suggest the main disk might be on the way out. I’ve run some tests to confirm that but they’re not conclusive. I’m just waiting for the hosting company to do their own tests and it may be that the disk will need to be swapped out. At best this will mean some downtime whilst the disk is swapped and cloned (if possible). At worst it will need a complete server rebuild if the drive isn’t cloneable. I’m hoping it’s the former option.

So…if the server suddenly disappears you’ll know why. I’d prefer to take the server down at short notice because if the disk does finally die there will be a lot more work to do.