Anarcho-Andrei Witness Update: 14 October 2017
Another week down, another witness update. This one's pretty big for me, so I'm excited to bring it to you!
The last seven days have been intense. From server issues to things happening in my life outside Steemit, it's been a hell of a ride. I've got the last of my midterms coming up tomorrow, and then it's nose to the grindstone again with the studying and reading. Putting that aside, though, here's what's been going on with yours truly:
- I am now ranked 96 overall! - Thanks to a very generous witness vote from @jerrybanfield, I've cracked into the top 100 witnesses! Jerry and I may not see eye-to-eye on everything, and I have many reservations about the way he conducts business, but I will never avoid giving credit where credit is due. Thanks to his vote, I'm now processing at least one block a day (sometimes two!). I'm much closer now to being self-sustaining. Or rather, I was, which leads me to my next point...
- I have a backup witness server - After the issues I had the last time my witness node went down, I began missing blocks. In fact, as of now, I've missed five total. I discovered later that this had been an oversight on my part; I'd written a container for docker into the wrong folder, which resulted in my witness failing each time it tried to access the container. However, to avoid problems like the ones that started the whole mess in the first place, I've purchased a second VPS through Privex. It has the same stats as my primary (16Gb RAM, 4 CPU cores, 220Gb HDD), and, thanks to @drakos' awesome failover script, I now have failover protection in the event my servers go down. No more missed blocks!
I realize it doesn't seem like much because it's just two bullet points, but purchasing a second server is a hefty undertaking for me. Right now, I'm close to breaking even on paying for one server. Paying for a second is another world away. However, this is where you great folks at Steemit can help me. I need a fair number of votes more before I'll be able to process enough blocks in a day to break even. At this point, I'd have to climb another 10 ranks to earn enough through witnessing to pay for both servers. At that point I'd be breaking even.
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Didn't realize you were a witness. You got my vote old steem friend. Just gotta get home to the computer.
Yup! Been at it for just over two months now. I'm a little embarrassed it took me this long to get to this point, but it is what it is lol. Thank you for the vote. I hope I live up to that trust :D
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You have my continued support, good call on the backup server. It may take a few, but worth it in the long run. You are "Movin on up... to the east side..." LOL Awesome work my friend. :-)
Have a great night. :-)
How the heck are you getting a block a day? I saw someone in #witness also say they got like 7 their first week. I'm #87, been up for about 60 days and only have a dozen or so total? WTF?
Something is wrong then, u might want to check ur server.
It's fine. It processed a block 6 hours ago, but it's not processing them at the pace some of you claim. At least based on steemdb reports.
Andy would you please add me to your witness votes because then we will be voting for each other?
I just updated my witness votes and didn't peruse my replies until after I got it done. Unfortunately, I don't have anymore votes left to give out, jerry. :/