Spinning Up Another Backup Witness Node
This weekend, I have enabled another backup witness node - and so far the node has been up for more than 12 hours and it didn't miss a block.
The more witness backup nodes, the better - as it will make the steem blockchain more robust (enhancing the durability) - as the backup node will be promoted to primary nodes automatically when the main node goes down.
The node is very smooth:
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Thanks!
Backups take a lot of time. You have to do this every day.
Thanks!
Hello justyy,
I also want to set up a backup witness node. I read your post above and your description how i can message about a missing block. The autoswitch script is also very interesting. I think i would change this code to switch the witness node if the server is unreachable.
But I don't know if I have understood that correctly:
Is it sufficient to change the signing key (by the 'witness_update' operation) to switch between the main and backup node?
And the config.ini of the main node and backup node contains the same witness account but different signing keys?
I hope you can help me with your experience. :-)
Yes, changing the signing key is to switch between nodes. And yes, config.ini should contain different signing keys.
Thank you!
BTW: Could you take a look to your discord server (Steem Global Discord). Maybe, my account (moecki#2249) is still blocked because of a spam hack months ago. Could you remove the blocking? My account is clean and safe now.
I don't see any list that blocks you. You may rejoin