If you're gonna make an announcement, may as well knock it out of the park. For today's witness update, we're here to let you know that we've upgraded all the things.
Hey all, Jeff here! Hopefully I've grabbed your attention and gotten the important points of this post across for those of you who are already thinking, "TL;DR." If you're wanting some more information, keep reading to find out more about the upgrades @crimsonclad and I have applied to the full public RPC node, Steemit.chat, and witness servers that have gone live this week. Full STEEM ahead!
We're huge believers in STEEM. We want to provide resources that will best support growth and stability for all users, and that has meant making sure to stay ahead of the curve on hardware costs and community initiatives. We've always done our best to upgrade early and minimize downtime. We're hoping to see more and more of these resources provided by those who are able to, to help share the load and strengthen performance for all. Right now, there really could be a lot more RPC nodes especially to help speed up all of the services running on this blockchain.
STEEMD.MINNOWSUPPORTPROJECT.ORG Full Public RPC Node is Now Upgraded to 512GB
About five months ago, we announced that we were pairing with the Minnow Support Project to provide a new full public RPC node for everyone to use. Since then, this is our second major upgrade, and we've been busting our butts to make sure we can afford any charges that come up. We take care of all management and pay for half of all costs personally, while the awesome team at MSP works hard to kick in the other half. (If you get a chance, pop in there to thank the witnesses and moderation team — they are tireless!) This is a great setup, as costs are climbing along with the requirements, and we're able to do a lot more together to provide a fast, reliable node that will keep up with what the blockchain requires. Minnowsupport uses this node, along with our personal witness projects, and you are welcome to as well!
RPC Server Details
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org
24-core 48-thread AMD Ryzen
(DEDI-DE) 512GB DDR4 RAM
50TB BW @ 1gbps network
All plugins enabled
Steemit.Chat Servers are Now Upgraded for Better Speed and Reliability, Plus Email Fixes
One of the whirlwind projects that has kept us beyond on our toes has been taking over the day to day maintenance and all costs associated with running Steemit.Chat. Going from users to admins has been quite the journey... we've been working for just about three weeks now, getting to know what chat needs to be better and working with the awesome moderation team there to learn the ropes. As of right now, you'll see:
Faster speeds across the entire chat
Majorly decreased downtimes
Thanks to the always amazing @GTG, we've gotten the long standing problem with registration emails not sending out all fixed up
@FollowBTCNews Witness Server Upgrades to 64GB
RPC nodes aren't the only resources that need to keep up with the blockchain. We're in the process of upgrading all witness servers to 64GB to make sure there's no chance we have any outages. The above two sets of upgrades were our priority as we saw decreased performance in the RPC and chat due the explosive growth in those services. Now that the dust has settled, we're getting a leg up on making sure we're ready to keep producing blocks without missing a beat.
Upcoming Witness Server Details
(DEDI-DE) 64GB DDR3 RAM
20TB BW @ 1gbps network
We work full time on Steem and Steemit related projects, leadership, and witness functions.
When I say we, I mean myself and my witness partner @crimsonclad. We're two buds who met through a shared interest in crypto and blockchain technologies, with two diverse and complimentary skillsets, who haven't even tried to kill each other yet! We hope we've been twice as effective at fulfilling our witness duties. You'll also notice we're both working on posting more, personally. We're not just leaders and supporters... we're also regular users and content creators. To all of you who have already voted for our witness, we're always available to make sure you continue to feel confident in your vote. If you haven't decided, take a look at our work, let us know what you'd like to see, and allow us to earn it.
If you'd like, please consider helping our witness FollowBTCNews keep these resources running and maintained.
We have been prepared from day one to take on the costs of being contributing witnesses, and are committed to making the Steem blockchain better and more reliable. With our own earnings going into more servers, more tools, and a top-tier RPC node with support from the leadership team at the Minnow Support Project, we have been able to do an awesome job so far! If you want to get involved, please consider voting for our witness FollowBTCNews, to help us offset the costs that will grow as the usage of these resources increase.
I run a top 30 Steemit witness, along with my project partner @crimsonclad. Feel free to reach out to us on STEEM Chat or Discord any time! If we haven't earned your vote, please consider our tools, our work on Discord, and STEEM.Chat — place a vote for followbtcnews if you feel we're doing a good job.
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Voted. :)
Jeff thank you for giving full time to our community here! I am grateful to be counted among those voting for you as a witness at https://steemit.com/~witnesses since nearly the beginning and am amazed at seeing all of the projects you have contributed to since our interview last year!
I will resteem this post soon!
Lets vote for a good and responsible witness for the steemit future. I definitely voted @jerrybanfield for witness, I do believe he is deserving to be one!
Indeed! You guys do really deserve to be voted as witness. Keep steeming on for for this community! @jeeybanfield @timcliff
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Rock on, you two! Thank you for all the incredible work you do for this community. Loving the upgrades and how you keep it moving.
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Now this I love :D
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thanks ya for the valuable info. Would definitely keep an eye on any news on this topic
Thanks for all the good work you are doing 👏 keep it up I just followed you and upvoted 👍 hope you have a great week
Most all that techno-jargon is above my pay grade (I'm retired) but I will throw some kudos your way for the initiative you take and your dedication to improving the Steemit platform. Good job guys!
it's good that they improved the speed of the steemit.chat on a new server they are working hard to improve the system .. jeff and @crimsonclad
Thank you so much follow and crimmy!
Very happy to have voted for y'all. Thanks for the good work you do.
Upvoted and resteemed. You guys are the backbone for so much that we interact with day to day, and your tireless efforts to give back to Steem and help the platform as a whole are prime examples of good witnessing. You've had my vote for a while, and that's never going to change. Keep up the good work!
Great job giving the community what it needs and running the show. Don't overwork yourselves.
Just voted for you as a witness thanks to this post.
keep doing what you're doing! it's awesome
Thank you for all the incredible work you do for this community. Loving the upgrades and how you keep it moving.
Some day I'll wake up, do the research and figure out the technological inner working of Steem and this will all mean something to me and I will fully appreciate the work that you guys have been putting into running a witness, but until then...
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This is just what I've been looking for. Thanks for making so many excellent upgrades as well as being open about what your working on and also for always keeping the community interests in mind. You guys are amazing. I follow and upvote your posts and I'll be looking into voting you for my witness and any other ways I can be involved in helping these projects to succeed. Thanks again.
Very happy to have voted for y'all. I agree with you are doing this work very well .i hope that you will success and achieve your goal i am very proud of you and thank you
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