View this post on Hive: Running a Witness: Is it as Easy as it Sounds? 🤔
Running a Witness: Is it as Easy as it Sounds? 🤔
7 years ago by drakos (70)
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I knew it wasn't easy but I had not idea it was this hard, thank you for doing what you do. I went ahead an voted for you.
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Very nice written and well explained.
I would like to add to the backup witness server a note: If you set up a backup witness, choose a different provider. Even better, at a different country. If you host both witnesses (main & backup) on the same provider, they may end up in the same host node (if you are using VPSes), or in the same datacenter. In case of a blackout (power/connectivity/whatever), you are simply paying more to have nothing.
The same goes for the seed node. Do not host it on the same provider. If possible, host it somewhere as far as possible.
And there is always the "risk" of 2 providers using the same datacenter for operations, and they only rent 3-4 racks. You can end up using the same datacenter or even room for your witness/seed operations.
Post resteemed to raise awareness :)
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Yes indeed. I didn't go into too much details, I wanted to give a global view of the witness challenges.
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KEEP AT IT CAPTAIN! YOU'RE A WITNESS IN MY BOOK.
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Exactly. There is more involved that what I had anticipated when I started my witness. Nothing outside of my ability, but it has been outside of my comfort zone. I can say that with your help, and the campaign, I've strengthened my skill set and I appreciate that. Had I known all of what you mentioned above BEFORE I decided to throw my hat in, I would have probably not started it. It IS an investment, and it is NOT just plug and play as you state *edit (bad wording.. You did not state that it was easy, that was meant to be agreement on your statement). Though I can say this it has entrenched me even deeper into the platform to make it the best I can from my position. Cheers on the post @drakos!
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I've helped (freely) many newbie witnesses with their setup. But deep down it pains me to seem them embark on this enterprise when I see their insufficient technical skills. I've been wanting to write this post for a while, so here it is. At the risk of sounding a bit tough in my writing, I think we need a dose of realism.
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Now this is how you serve a well needed dose of realism. Too many people swimming beyond their depths. I am relatively new to steemit and if you don't mind I have set you as my proxy for voting witnesses as it appears that you know better what to do with the votes than myself. Thanks for this reminder on the importance of due diligence.
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Thanks for the info, I plan on running a witness one day. I am going vote for you now.(looks like I had already voted for you) lol
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Your vote is appreciated 😀
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:0)*
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If anyone doesnt want to read all here is a summ up:
Beeing a witnes is a pain in the azz. If your azz is soft - dont do it.
Now thinking bout it....do witnesses have firm bottoms? :3
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Well put. Care to examine mine?
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Bend over and think of daisies. :>
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You got my vote sir. Resteeming <3
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I humbly accept it 🙇
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It is good information, I find that many people are like witness what's that? So maybe posts like this will help clear that up a bit.
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Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by drakos from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews/crimsonclad, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
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This post has received a 0.45 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @banjo.
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Great post! This should be pinned in the Steemit chat #witness channel :)
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Tell that to gandalf 😁
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Woow! I know very little so far about Steemit, but you have an incredibly difficut work to do. Good on You!
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And for that reason, you have my vote . Doing great things for this community and we love you for that !! Keep up the good work
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Thank you for the kind words.
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I look like her minus the purple hair 😂😂😂😂🙊💜 my neighbor recently handed me a book on Linux and now that you mentionned it, will definetly look more into it! Keep it up babe
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Une montréalaise en plus! Cool. You have an interesting blog, I will be checking it for sure.
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OH MY GOD SAY WHAT HOW DO YOU KNOW IM A FRENCHIE😍😂😂😂 you speak FRENCH too?? Sorry I'm freaking out there's no frenchy pants on here it's awesome to see you're from mine 😍🙊😏 thanks cutayyy💜💫
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Ben, j'ai lu ton blog et ton introduction. Oui, je prend le temps de répondre aux gentils commentaires ET de découvrir le blog de leur auteur. Vive la poutine de la belle province 😁
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Wow t'es le bestest 💗👌🏻 Merci full!!!:) comment ça tu parle français mister?😏🙊
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ca-fr comme toi 😉
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Dayum bro👌🏻❤️😂
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Upvoted for tge good and educative content
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Interresting article, thank you! I haven't myself considered becoming a witness but haven't either really known about how it is working. This article gave me a lot of new information of what it is about and also confirmed that I would need to learn a lot more before I could consider becoming a witness. Thanks also for the contribution you do for the steemit society, I hope it is an apreciated one!!
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Thank you !!
Namaste
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My mind just exploded... I made a small attempt to mine steem, but failed. As I understand only witnesses can do it? Not like with other currencies?
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Mining was removed from steem a long time ago. Yes, witnesses are the ones responsible for generating the blocks.
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Great article. I was curious about all this. Not surprised it requires a lot of dedicated time and technical skills.
About the huge amount of RAM, that is often a sign of something that needs to be optimised in the software code... Maybe it is a known issue ?
And .. hehe I am glad I voted for you then, even if my vote is nothing compared to most here.
! :)
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Every vote is important ☺️
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Is that @jerrybanfield in drag on the first image?
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hahahah, no.
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:D haha
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Congratulations, you just made me cancel my witness proposal!!
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Great job man, you give a very good explanation for what witness is in another point of view!
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so question about ranking, the higher rank the more blocks you can process, and only way to increase in ranks are voting?
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Exactly.
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can i vote for you as a witness?
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Of course you can. The instructions are in the footer of my posts, and I wrote a guide about voting for witnesses.
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This is an awesome post!
In fact it contains things that only one of your closest friends or family will tell you. While some posts do mention hidden somewhere that it could be tough, you have put down all the details of the areas that would require consistent effort upfront.
There has to be realism attached to becoming a Witness - I see too many newbies are rushing in after signing up, in most cases not even knowing what Steemit is all about. Agreed, the two require two different skillsets but a new signup rushing in for the money is a sure setup for failure - especially when there are so many make money options out there.
I have a question - does one require to have a very thorough knowledge of Linux to operate as a Witness, or just being familiar with the basics is enough?
Thanks.
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The guides written about the witness installation do not cover how to secure your server, customize the scripts (bashrc, fail-over, for example). The linux basics may get you around, but you need to have some additional knowledge to do those extra things. To give you an idea, most of the top 20 people are professional developers and IT people.
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you are 100% right, we chatted in witness chat room!!!I have y witness still running, but haven't taken it to online ... its a lot of additional time spend to maintain it.have you had chance to produce blocks yet?
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Yes I'm producing blocks.
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Hi ! This post helped me understand a couple of things about witness.
Voted for witness upvoted resteemed.
Yet i didnt understand how i can vote for more than 1.
tip!
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You just vote for more witnesses, to maximum 30.
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I'm loving it!
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Hi @drakos! You have just received a 0.1 SBD tip from @utzo!
@tipU quick guide | How to check your pending payouts.
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You've got what it takes.
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This is truly exceptional.
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This is sensational.
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This is just perfect!
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This is a game-changer.
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This is so valuable.
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This is so impressive.
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Fantastic!
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This is beyond amazing.
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This is pure brilliance.
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After reading this I wanted to vote, but then I noticed I’d voted already, lol. Take care.
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I've personally wondered how much time you dedicate to this project as you're always active on Chat in pretty much every room I've seen.
Are you living off this or somehow balancing it with a job?
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I'm pretty much fulltime on this.
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Enlightening. Upvoted,resteemed and followed.
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I salute you, man. I know you have a lot on your plate right now. It takes a lot of gut to do what you're doing. I have a question, can I vote multiple witnesses? I already voted you... :))
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@pinaynomad, thanks for your vote. If you look at the top of the witness voting page, you can see that you can vote for 30 witnesses at the same time. The votes aren't permanent, you can change them anytime you like.
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thanks mate! Looking forward to your future projects. :-)
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I eventually want to become a witness, and this gave me a very good idea of what to expect. Thank you very much for this post.
I think I will be able to do it, I do have the technical skills needed to manage a Linux server, I think i'll have a bigger problem getting the votes necessary to make it financially sustainable.
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what i miss is the amount of bandwidth that is used by the servers can you host a backup server at home if you have optic fiber ?
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You can host it anywhere you want, as long as you have a reliable 24/7 low latency network. There's a witness running it from his house, but he often misses blocks. It seemed to be related to his ISP. Another witness ran some of his nodes on OVH in past, and he said it was crappy for running nodes on it as him too missed blocks. If you want, you can try a seed node setup (no signing key required) and see what kind of latencies you get when it's synchronized. They vary between 35-550 ms. Also, the network speed (gbit and more) is more important for a full API node.
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i might try to setup something like that in my new house somewhere in october , already have virtual linux running so it shouldn't be to much work to test things
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So basically you earn about 15sp a day for being a witness? Because you receive about 15 blocks a day.
How much money have you invested in the equipment?
Thank you very much for sharing your experience
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Altogether it costs me around $100 per month for the servers, plus all the time being a witness.
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Can I get some upvote for some of my post @brainy723
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No. Please don't ask that in comments, it will get you flagged.
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Thanks
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