Dear friends,
hereby I apply for your support for the Hive-Engine witness.
During the weekend I had a long and intense conversation with Hive-Engine Witness node in the making. I am so happy to announce that the beasty is up and running and signing blocks already.
Here is the proof as seen on HIVE Monitor by @primersion, which was beautifully upgraded moments ago:
Setting up a witness node was a great learning experience. My rusty Linux sysadmin skills are beginning to awaken and tinkering with things in the shell is fun again. Anyway, I digress.
Why vote for my witness?
My core values are:
- Transparency
- Proactivity
- Empathy
I hope you will feel the transparency throughout this application, in my words, and in my deeds.
I proactively deal with issues and situations and act on them to have a beneficial outcome for everybody involved.
I feel your needs, goals, expectations. I strive to enable and support you to achieve them.
I've been an active member of Steem/Hive community for a long time. Coming this May it will be five interesting and never boring years. I thank you for a great journey so far.
I am active or supportive in several niche communities like @actifit, @runningproject, @skatehive, @exhaust, @hodlcommunity.
Is playing Hive-Engine based games a show of support too? Then count me in for @cryptobrewmaster, @risingstar, @rabona, ... :)
I wish to contribute to the platform and the community.
Being a Hive-Engine Witness is an opportunity to empower and support the decentralization of governance and distribution of the workload. It's an act of long-term engagement.
I will help and support the platform by providing accurate witness services. In fact, I am already providing them.
How to vote for my witness?
First of all, the tokens to vote with are WORKERBEEs. You need to have them staked for your vote to have any influence.
Then you head to the TribalDEX site, login, and cast up to thirty votes.
Both on TribalDEX and on HIVE Monitor you can follow the performance of registered witnesses.
Thank you for visiting these sites and casting your votes, on behalf of all vote-receivers.
Future tasks as a witness
- maintaining the node server and software, upgrading it regularly,
- taking part in governance and working toward common goals,
- helping future witness node owners with experience gained so far,
- promoting Hive, Hive-Engine, initiatives, projects and dApps within the ecosystem and on other media channels,
- reporting regularly on the state of my witness node.
Witness node configuration
Remember the part about transparency? Here it is in action.
Leased VPS server: Time4VPS, Lithuania (referral link)
Configuration: Linux 8
- CPU 2 x 2.6 GHz
- 8 GB RAM
- 80 GB SSD storage
- 8 TB Bandwith
- price: 50 € without VAT for the first year, 100 € afterward
Software:
- Ubuntu 20.04 (64-bit)
- Hive-Engine node: v1.2.0
I would love when other witnesses, both Hive and Hive-Engine would publish their configurations so we can compare them. Pesky details like hardware, prices, location, ... are important.
Resources
There is an ongoing series about how I set up the system. The final chapter with tips and tricks is yet to be written.
- Choosing The VPS Host
- Setting Up The Server And Hive-Engine Witness Node
- Hive-Engine Witness Setup, Part 3 - Catching the blockchain with Hive-Engine Witness Node
These great resources helped me a lot:
- How To Set Up A Hive Engine Witness- Step By Step Guide by @rishi556 with everything explained splendidly
- One-Click Hive Engine Witness by @blervin with a full script to do it all in one go
- Step by Step Guide to setup Hive Engine Witness from scratch by @bala41288 who performed the setup for @neoxianminer
I need to mention the official launch announcement and documentation too, of course, prepared by @eonwarped:
- Hive Engine P2P Launch Details
- GitHub wiki document How-to-setup-a-Steem-Smart-Contracts-node
Kudos and acknowledgments
Many thanks to following great people providing their expertise, experience, and support. Both in the form of tutorials and articles, and with direct help in Discord.
@primersion, @rishi556, @eturnerx, @bala41288, @rollie1212, @blervin, @eonwarped, @mcfarhat, @cervisia, @forkyw, ...
You all rock!
Many thanks to those who have already voted for my witness. I will fulfill your trust.
Final words
It has been a long weekend and Monday behind the computer. Now, when everything is running smoothly, it is time to be grateful and enjoy the occasion.
I wish you all a great time on this journey. Thank you!
Better and better
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As already said, great to have you as a witness and awesome we have a hive-engine witness node in Lithuania now :) !BEER
Thanks for the beer :)
Thanks for the mention and glad you're up and running and part of the team!
Thank you and thanks to you too :)
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@ervin-lemark denkt du hast ein Vote durch @investinthefutur verdient!
@ervin-lemark thinks you have earned a vote of @investinthefutur !
Your current Rank (7) in the battle Arena of Holybread has granted you an Upvote of 16%
Ps: this is way better than Koinos client :)
podpiram ampak, jbg kot na Tw, nimam teh tokenov, sem bolj na DHEDHE, archon, LEO, ...
Ni blema. Tudi moralna podpora šteje :)
Ja, tale WORKERBEE ni ravno razširjena zadeva ...
Lep pokulturni teden :)
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BEER.Got mine running on Ubuntu 20.04 on a Hetzner server with 4 gb ram, 2 vcpu and 40 gb ssd for main, and a rpc node which servers as backup on a stronger server than that on hetzner as well(yes its weird that a backup is on a more powerful machine but its main role is as a rpc which transfers about 50 gb of data a day).
I plan on switching to a privex dedicated server soon.
Thanks a lot for your input. So you'll be switching from Hetzner to privex? Or from both to privex?
I decided that a VPS is enough for the start. I registered with Hetzner, they wanted 20 € upfront to show I am serious, I waited until another morning. Then, when I tried to log in, the account was disabled. Supposedly it's a common practice at Hetzner. I sent them an email with the complaint. Well, I didn't wait for their support to wake up - they didn't answer yet. End of story for me!
Good luck with privex.
I'll just be taking one of my hive engine witness nodes(either main or backup depending on things go) to privex.