A Brief Introduction of the Upcoming Steem Witness

New Witness - Coming Soon!

@steem.racing is launching the newest witness on the Steem blockchain very soon. The witness is aiming to help the ever-growing Steem blockchain and the community around it.

Who am I?

The user behind the witness is @bitmalaysia or you can call me as Anthony. I am currently living in Malaysia. I have been with Steem almost 2 years now since October 2016. Moreover, I am a software developer with a Computer Science degree from Ohio State University and over 10 years of software development and crypto technology's experience. Besides, I have been involved in projects with virtualization, AWS, software architecture, and provided consulting and software development services for major software companies, and over a dozen different startups.

_{@bitmalaysia on steemit.com}

Server Specification

Here are the specifications for my Steem dedicated server.

E3-1270v6 Processor
8 CPU @ 3.8Ghz
32 GB Memory
240GB x 2
5000GB Bandwidth

Thanks for the great resource from @deltik's post, currently I am running the witness on Vultr's bare metal server using shared memory with zram. I am pretty sure that this specification will need to upgrade soon to avoid missed blocks happening on the blockchain. So far, I am still doing research on choosing the right hosting company on final hosting. Beside the popular Digital Ocean, I heard a lot of good reviews about @privex. If any of you have any recommendations or suggestions, please feel free to let me know.

When the replay process completed 100% and @steem.racing witness is ready to service the community.