Topic: Server questions: server downtime, onion address (Read 243 times)

I see that the bitcoin address for donation to this forum holds 190 BTC, which makes me wonder lack of possible improvements to these forum servers.
I assume that most of it is savings for the future costs of running these servers and bug bounties, but I still have some questions.

1. Why does this server regularly experience downtime?

I noticed that the forum was giving 5XX errors every now and then, which are server errors. That makes me wonder why is there not a backup server for the times maintenance is being done on the main one. Seems to me like bitcointalk gets chocked up every now and then, like it isn't prepared for the traffic.
Is there some specific reason for these server failures?

2. Why does bitcointalk not run it's own hidden service?

It would be useful for all the users that want to be anonymous if bitcointalk to had a onion address, since anonymity is higher if it stays inside the Tor network.
This would give people the alternative to use in case of governments shutting down the known servers of this forum as well. It would also remove the trust in DNS and Certificate Authorities, which btw for some reason is not a free and open source Let's Encrypt CA. It seems only natural for a Bitcoin forum to integrate private and secure anti-censorship technology. After all, Bitcoin Core client already shows it's support for running the node on the Tor network.