I very strongly believe in the Steem platform and I will be here to watch it grow and grow with it.
I will continually upgrade my server as needed for the good of the community. I will also have my seed up within a week, and will update this post when the seed it active.
Update: I had to change my provider for my servers already, Linode proved to be very inadequate. I am waiting for provisioning by OVH which they say up to 24 hours because of upgrading to NVME drives.
My new servers are:
FULL NODE:
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1650v3 - 6c/12t - 3.5GHz /3.8GHz
RAM: 128GB DDR4 ECC 2133 MHz
Disks: SoftRaid 2x450GB NVME
SEED NODE:
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1650v3 - 6c/12t - 3.5GHz /3.8GHz
RAM: 64GB DDR4 ECC 2133 MHz
Disks: SoftRaid 2x450GB NVME
I have worked in Linux systems administration since the mid 90s. I currently specialize in Information Security and Security Auditing. I am very experienced in programming languages sucn as Python, C, Swift. I began coding in the dead languages of Fortran and Machine Language, but I have kept up with technology over the years.
I will do absolutely everything I can to contribute to the success and growth of the steem platform. One of the most important things to me in anonymity and security.
Once you have your seed node up and running, can you drop a link in the #seed-nodes channel of steem.chat? Welcome to the witness community :)
I will. Work has cut into my time to do what I want, but hope to have up this week.
Cool :)