I created a ASP.NET web service that uses a 3rd party payment processing engine to authorize credit card transactions.
The web service is hosted on a separate applic
I know this is stack overflow and there should be a programming answer here, but you mention no updates or software changes to the failing machine. If there were no software changes it is most likely a hardware issue. RAM Fails, CPUs fail, hardware fails. If you can take the system offline and test the hardware you will probably find that a disk or a memory module is failing (NIC maybe too). It is likely the first step the vendor would have you do but if you do it yourself you can do it on your terms and might safe yourself the service charge for a few hours of their time.