Hi mate, I just came across your post, I have just started my own witness about a week ago, I went with my own server straight away, I have full control and don’t rely on a hosting service, best way I think. Anyway send me a vote if you have a spare slot, I’ll do the same.
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Hey, congrats! Yeah my home server has been running stable for a while now and I am happy so far. It is good to have a backup node running in another location that you can quickly switch to, though in case something happens (as I learned the hard way) but totally your choice.
I recently used up my last vote, but I will keep an eye out. People abandon their witness nodes all the time and I have to move votes around.
It makes good sense to have a backup in case your main server has a big failure like a dead motherboard, I will get a backup at some point, but for general patching, I think disabling it for a few minutes won't be a big deal.
I have a spare slot, standby for an incoming vote.
Thanks for the vote! I will hit you up when I get a free vote.
The backup is great for catastrophic failures, of course. In my case there was an issue where the node froze or crashed in a way such that the block log was corrupted. I needed to do a full replay which took days on the Privex server. (Even with a July 2023 snapshot)
On my home machine it can sync from scratch in 27 hours, but that is still a long time to be down.
But to be fair, it isn't as huge a deal when we are lower than 50th place in rank!
Well, that was fast. Turns out I got a vote for you. There ya go!