Witness Back and Upgraded to 20.6 - after 35 hrs offline and Backup Server Enabled!

I started upgrading to 20.6 at Saturday night without a backup server. It took longer than I expected because:

1. witness server is only 50GB RAM.
2. ZRAM enabled (compressed）
3. Main CPU Frequency is only 2100 MHz

I thought witness plugin is the same thing as witness_api thus I removed it and when replay was around 90% - I made another mistake by ./run.sh restart - because I thought it will reload the configuration. Lessons Learned!

It took another 10+ hours because the reindexing had to re-start from beginning.

I thought it would be great to have a backup server in the future because during the offline, I lost three votes.. And most importantly, being a witness means responsibility to produce blocks when needed. We all need to minimize the downtime.

I spent another fortune to rent another VPS - as a backup. Both are now fully synchronized to 20.6 blockchain.

Left: Main Server, Right: Backup Server

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Main Witness Server

• Running 20.6 now (Docker)
• Location: Germany
• 10 cores of Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
• 50 GB RAM
• 1200 GB SSD
• 1000 Mbit/s port, Upstream 130 Gbits
• Ubuntu 16.04 xenial

Backup Witness Server

• Running 20.6 now (Docker)
• Location: Germany
• 10 cores of Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
• 60 GB RAM
• 1600 GB SSD
• 1300 Mbit/s port, Upstream 130 Gbits
• Ubuntu 18.04 bionic

Enjoy and Steem On!

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