STEEM-in-a-box Description - Steem-in-a-box is a toolkit made for witnesses, to ease the pain of deploying a witness or seed server. It includes helpful commands such as dlblocks which automatically grabs the Blockchain from @gtg's server, extracts it, and installs it into the correct directory.

If you're looking to set up a NEW witness server, please follow the Steem-in-a-box HF19 instructions

The v0.19.2 update is important for witnesses as it adds in some fixes to the P2P code. This may help resolve the spout of block misses we've seen recently.

Upgrade Step 1. UPDATE YOUR SEED NODES

This is important. It's been a while since Steem-in-a-box had it's seeds updated, and many of them are offline. I have published a new seed list into the example config, which means new witnesses will already have the updated seeds.

Please update your config.ini with this seed list (you may want to also remove all previous seeds incase they are offline).

# P2P nodes to connect to on startup (may specify multiple times)
seed-node = anyx.co:2001                        # @anyx (CA)
seed-node = gtg.steem.house:2001                # @gtg (PL)
seed-node = seed.steemnodes.com:2001            # @wackou (NL)
seed-node = 192.99.3.29:2001                    # joseph
seed-node = 5.9.18.213:2001                     # pfunk
seed-node = lafonasteem.com:2001                # lafona
seed-node = seed.rossco99.com:2001              # rossco99
seed-node = steem-seed.altcap.io:40696          # ihashfury
seed-node = seed.steemfeeder.com:2001           # au1nethyb1
seed-node = seed.roelandp.nl:2001               # roelandp
seed-node = steem.global:2001                   # klye
seed-node = seed.esteem.ws:2001                 # good-karma
seed-node = 176.31.126.187:2001                 # timcliff
seed-node = seed.thecryptodrive.com:2001        # thecryptodrive
seed-node = steem-id.altexplorer.xyz:2001       # steem-id
seed-node = seed.bitcoiner.me:2001              # bitcoiner
seed-node = 104.199.118.92:2001                 # clayop
seed-node = seed.steemviz.com:2001              # ausbitbank
seed-node = steem-seed.lukestokes.info:2001     # lukestokes
seed-node = seed.blackrift.net:2001             # drakos
seed-node = seed.jerrybanfield.com:2001         # @jerrybanfield (USA)

Upgrade Step 2.

Grab the latest Steem-in-a-box code. There may have been improvements to the run.sh script.

cd steem-docker
git pull

Upgrade Step 3.

Disable your signing key, or switch to your backup server.

@furion's conductor

conductor disable

cli_wallet

update_witness "yourname" "https://steemit.com/witness-category/@yourname/thread" "STM1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm" {"account_creation_fee":"0.200 STEEM","maximum_block_size":65536,"sbd_interest_rate":0} true

Upgrade Step 4.

Stop the server

./run.sh stop

Install the new release

./run.sh install

Assuming you were on v0.19.1 previously, you should be able to start the server again, without the need for a replay.

./run.sh start

Check your logs with

./run.sh logs

If all went well, you'll see this:

802147ms th_a       witness_plugin.cpp:487        plugin_startup       ] witness plugin:  plugin_startup() begin
802147ms th_a       witness_plugin.cpp:492        plugin_startup       ] Launching block production for 1 witnesses.
802147ms th_a       witness_plugin.cpp:493        plugin_startup       ] _witnesses: ["someguy123"]
802147ms th_a       witness_plugin.cpp:507        plugin_startup       ] witness plugin:  plugin_startup() end
802148ms th_a       main.cpp:198                  operator()           ] Started witness node on a chain with 15079834 blocks.
804050ms th_a       application.cpp:514           handle_block         ] Got 17 transactions on block 15079867 by busy.witness -- latency: 50 ms
807070ms th_a       application.cpp:514           handle_block         ] Got 18 transactions on block 15079868 by bhuz -- latency: 70 ms

You're now on v0.19.2 - congratulations. It may take a while to show up on Steemd/SteemDB, as it is only updated when you get a block.

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