Thank you.. I just posted to start thinking about setting up a witness.. id you start with the 16GB version or the 32GB version? I also want to do it for the community, but also to break even after some months... What do you expect to get per month after 3 to 4 months?
32GB is preferable to most, for upcoming changes that may stress the network a bit. Future proofing, I guess.
I paid for a 64GB on Privex (since they allow payment in SBD), and then I paid @someguy123 to set it up for me. A bit more than one would need so soon, but it was in a budget that I was comfortable paying.
If you will do it yourself, @someguy123 has a good guide here; https://steemit.com/steem/@someguy123/your-guide-to-setting-up-a-witness-server-steem-in-a-box-hf19
Best of luck!
_Rob
Oh, and TBH... I am not sure on the return-on-investment. I jumped in now, since I loved the recent whitepaper Ned posted.
Ok great, I hope you will receive a lot of votes.. I hope you would share some details with me after some weeks... I cannot afford a loss each month by running a witness.. So I want to do it but also need to have some value.. I just started 3 months ago on steemit.. and don't want to powerdown just for a witness server..
I understand that :)
We have to always help ourselves, before helping others.
Ask me in a month or so, and I will let you know how my server worked out for me.
_Rob
Thx rob.. I will.