On behalf of the VATSIM Minneapolis ARTCC:

Petition

In memory of Bert Kuiper, the members of the VATSIM Minneapolis ARTCC are respectfully requesting the VATSIM Board of Governors (BoG) restrict the use of the callsign 'NWA7' in recognition to a long time and devoted pilot to the VATSIM network.

Board of Directors
VATSIM Minneapolis ARTCC

Not that I don't think this effort is in good faith, but it opens a whole new door of restricting callsign use across the network and the requirements for doing so. I personally don't think it is a door that VATSIM wants or should open.

Yeah, we have backups. Trying to decide if we should fix this thing or just move. It's an old machine and Servpath isn't really interested in continuing to service the thing. They basically want us to move to a bigger machine with a much higher lease. Nine years with them and this may be the end. Might move the forums and a few other things on to a machine in Germany. Servers are cheap in Europe right now and very expensive in California at the moment.

The server in Canada may have to act as the FSD hub for the Pacific hop. Taking USA-W2 offline will cause the bandwidth on USA-E to go up; not sure how the owner will feel about that.

Will keep you in mind.

Tough decision. Moving to the European server might be a smart move in the long run.