Server Upgrades
I finally finished upgrading the servers, since the 16 GB RAM is no longer sufficient to sustain a witness or seed server. I missed 2 blocks during the process. I decided to set up my main witness server outside of Germany, because a lot of witness nodes are gathered in that country. Germany is appealing for its low prices, but it's not good to keep all the eggs in the same basket (unless it's Easter).
I've been shopping for a well priced provider for a while. I tested a few before finding a satisfactory solution. So, the primary witness was upgraded from 16 GB to 32 GB, and the seed from 12 GB to 24 GB.
New Setup
| Server | CPU | RAM | Disk | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Witness | 8 cores | 32 GB | 300 GB SSD | 800 Mbit/s |
| Backup Witness | 6 cores | 24 GB | 600 GB SSD | 100 Mbit/s |
| Seed | 6 cores | 24 GB | 600 GB SSD | 100 Mbit/s |
| Additional fail-over | 2 cores | 1 GB | 25 GB | 100 Mbit/s |
Quick news
- My witness position is stable at Rank 30.
Maintaining APR at 1%.APR set to 0%, considering the insane SBD pump on the Korean market.- I continue to help users and witnesses on Steemit.Chat.
- I was tagged by @discordiant to participate in the Seven Day Black & White Challenge, so check out my master photography 😃
- I was a guest in @aggroed's Minnow Mayor Town Hall, it was a fun experience, check it out. I mainly declared my love to @kubbyelizabeth 😍 (I hope all the ladies won't be too jealous), and discussed one aspect of Steem that bothers me and which needs improvement: the Steemit UI. I still consider this a top priority if Steemit wants to achieve a better success with the platform.
Development Participation
- I had offered a 20 STEEM prize to whoever can fix a SteemJS bug. Unfortunately, still no solution.
- One of my old pull requests is in the process of being approved and merged: Change "People I Follow" to "My Feeds".
GitHub Pull Requests
- Indicate the Importance of Decimals and Units on Account Creation (English and French translations included) (approved ✔)
- Fixes for data too long and out of range errors
- Fix for "Unhandled rejection Error"
- Change "People I Follow" to "My Feeds" (pending approval ✔)
- Update the signup page to include periods in the allowed account characters (approved ✔)
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