After many years of having the honor of being a Hive witness, I've decided that running a witness server is not for me, as I have too much going on to be instantly on-call to fix things when they (to often) go wrong.
My lifestyle, religion and commitments mean I have periods when I am unavailable for multiple days at a time and this is invariably when something goes wrong with my witness server.
This happened during HiveFest and when I was travelling for weeks thereafter.
Then last week when I was super busy away from my main computer I got this.
To all the Hiveans who have voted for me over the years, THANK-YOU!
If you are looking for somewhere to move your witness vote I suggest @brianoflondon & @techcoderx. They have the skills, time and right mental approach to be keeping servers running reliably over the long term.
I'd much rather spend my Hive time posting content.