how could witnesses, supernodes stay running in a pre pandemic world without multiSIG & billing covered?

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I’m probably just blowing this out of proportion but we do often see a bunch of numbers thrown around about how serious this coronavirus could blow up. Just yesterday when I was shopping I noticed that a particular aisle of the super market was cleaned out of big 10kg bags of flour, someone is certainly stocking up to ‘try and ride something’ out.

Obviously do your own research on the matter but this was written really as a kind of thoughtful prod about our own future as a service with immutability, it’s only immutable if the power is on and the servers are running, the less servers we have, the more difficult that becomes to serve the users, how many nodes at a bare minimum do we need and what can we do ourselves to mitigate servers falling away.

Ok, so firstly, look I understand, most server operators don’t go anywhere apart from to refill the jolt cola and to order in mostly and servers just run and run as long as they have power fed to them, as long as the billing is active then the repeat billing happens each month — maybe some sysop’s have paid for the servers for the year or a few years (this is my hope) but then what if one of those operators is sick and dies? Do we have any kind of planning in place for someone to hope in and regulate that server, is that even against the governance model of witnessing or super blocks?

I’ve always thought of witness/superhost hosting as a really big area that steem could be at the cornerstone off — a data market place for hosting provision, bolting in protections for these things mentioned above would really add some value I think to the offering — imagine the marketing you could do for an always on, pandemic prepared server provisioning — with multisig between say three people who could get in and take over the maintenance of the server if required — billing swapped out or group paid for such a situation if it arises, maybe a DAO for the actually witnessing.

Of course I know I’m blowing all of this out of proportion but it did hit me this morning when you see previous big numbers for pandemics and while you can never which 60% of the population (some crazy numbers like that) might be effects (some die) you do wonder how it’s effecting manufacturing and I had seen some figures of the top 1000 companies being 95% effected by lack of workforce or materials able to reach them.

Dunno, just popped into my head this morning, time to do the pots, make some coffee and get into some template layout work!

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