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RE: Introducing conductor, a simple Steem Witness Toolkit
This is amazing. I've held off on running my own witness because I'm more of a programer than an OPS guy, but this is really tempting me to try it out.
Can you recommend a solid host for your witness? Roughly how much do you spend on hosting/bandwidth costs each month to keep your Witness up?
Thanks again for this fantastic resource. When it's this easy to get going, I think we'll always have plenty of witnesses in the Steemit ecosystem.
vultr.com Vitrual Private Server (vps). $40/mth for an 8gig ram system. I think that might work. Still figuring it out myself.
I use hetzner.de, I'm pretty happy with them.
Thanks for replying.
My company @privex offers a small 8GB VPS, perfect for witnesses, for just $30/mo - unlike other hosts, we guarantee you won't miss any blocks (assuming your witness is configured correctly, which we can help you with).
If you miss a block on our network, we'll refund you $2 for each block.
We also take STEEM, LTC, and BTC, unlike most big hosts :)
PM me on STEEMIT.CHAT if you're interested
Thanks, I may give that a shot! I like the idea of supporting a fellow Steemian and paying in STEEM currency.
I highly recommend contabo.com
Note that @furion did not mention: do not run these scripts on a machine you don't have physical control of, setting price feeds requires your active key.
i'm trying on contabo to install a witness node, without success. i can non update_witness in the wallet.
It's a complicated process. First you have to create a password for the wallet. Then you have to import a key.
By the way, not advisable to run the wallet on the contabo server, for security reasons, especially if you are relatively new to linux systems administration. You should build a docker image or run in a virtual machine, but only build the cli_wallet (the steemit github will at least get you that far.
After you import the key, then you have to generate the brain key, save that somewhere safe, the pubic key goes into the update_witness command and the private key goes into the config.ini.
But I'm not going to be able to help you any further than that, I'm too busy, and also, I am draining the blood out of l0k1 and feeding it to elfspice, and this account will be intentionally abandoned in the future. My life has started a new phase and it's back to the roots.
appreciable comment. going to follow you too :)
Thank you!
you could try omkhost.com
I've been up and running for just under two months as @lukestokes.mhth using @privex and I'm quite happy so far with it.