I've been running mpserver16 on a personal server with a 10Gbps link for 10 years, and have also been hosting a full copy of the terrain/scenery data there. Early on, I ported fgms (the multiplayer server) to BSD and ran it there, until I was too busy to keep up with that and migrated it to a Linux system. I spent countless hours working on textures for liveries and cockpit details, some 3D modeling, and even tweaking the F/A-18 FDM to try to account for everything I could find in the NATOPS flight manual and various NASA documents. Some of this made it into FG, some of it did not—it took up a lot of my time, and eventually real life took over.
Alas, I have not had time to run FG in years. The only reason I've continued to pay for the server was to keep mpserver16 and the scenery mirror alive.
In the coming weeks mpserver16 and the scenery mirror hosted there will be taken offline.
As a side-note to FG admins: it may be worth moving your DNS to Cloudflare to take advantage of proxying your scenery mirrors through their systems, enabling them to cache assets and save you a ton of bandwidth. Over the past 2 years, mpserver16 has served over 25TB of scenery data, and it has been running a lot longer than that:
Thanks for the sorties, and I wish the project continued success in the future.