My last Witness Update was over a month ago and I didn't plan to make one yet - as everything ran smooth and I was (and still am) very much busy with developing (incl. a really cool new project for Steem - but not yet ready for publicity).
However, I missed a block today due to my witness server going down out of the blue. Even though my (self-coded) witness failover script worked partly as expected by notifiying me via SMS to my phone about it - the disabling of the witness didn't (seems that it's not possible to broadcast a witness-update with the NULL-KEY via steem-js/dsteem) - so I had to do that manually with steempy / conductor (I'm extremely grateful for the witness-disable-option, @furion!)
After the server was manually started again by @privex - I've made a bit of research with the help of @someguy123 and we came to the conclusion that it got hammered by a bruteforce attack which maybe froze the kernel and then resulted in a hard shutdown.
This was possible in the first place due to my mistake of not changing the ssh default port - which resulted in a ton of brute-force attacks, even with IP-banning.
Now, the positive news is that everything is back to normal now (last block was signed few minutes ago) and I def. learned my lesson to always change the ssh port.
Another positive news is that I climbed the witness-ranks over the last few weeks where I stand now at rank 40 - thanks to a lot of new voters - including some big-ones: @transisto, @fenghuang, @agoric-systems, @unknownbloc, @redpalestino, @hitwill, @nxtblg, @kingscrown, @dineroconopcion.
All of you - regardless if you were mentioned - you have my gratitude for your vote!
Alright - that's it for now. The next witness-update will hopefully be a lot more fun and exciting.
~wolf
Every time becomes a master witness @therealwolf does good work for the community, greetings and a hug to the distance for new successes and learning
Thank you vida :)
Hello. Watch comments here, some people, including myself, have missing SBD sent to @smartmarket. Mine have more than 24 hours.
https://steemit.com/smartsteem/@smartsteem/temporary-downtime
Good night friend
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Thank you guys for giving us a signal about the witness update you are working on. Success !!!
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BEWARE OF SMARTSTEEM!!! It has downvoted many users. Smartsteem gang attacked me too.....Noticed the warning of @savemax about smartsteem bot. Savemax is telling the truth, smartsteem attacked me too. The reason is very funny. Savemax had transferred some SBD to me, selling his SBD and buying INR from me. So smartsteem thought that my account also belongs to @savemax, and started attacking me too. All the accounts associated with smartsteem like @clvr , @therealwolf , @smartmarket @mac-bot , @spaminator , @prowler , @kuminga, @blacklist-a , and @steemcleaners which are mentioned in the post of @savemax, down-voted all my posts and wiped out all the earnings I made. This is very un-ethical. Tomorrow, if @savemax transfers some SBD to some other reputed account, smartsteem and his gangs will attack that account too. @savemax is telling the truth, Do not use smartsteem, otherwise you may sometimes lose all the transferred money without getting an up-vote. You cannot even ask the money back, then they will start attacking you too, like they did with @savemax. I am conveying this message to maximum people who are posting links using steembottracker.