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RE: gtg witness log

in #witness-category • 6 years ago

Thank you for this update. While I'm new to SteemIt, I did find it interesting to read this "behind-the-scenes" post. I couldn't help noticing that the block size in your link was ~63 Giga-Bytes, while in all sorts of "running a node" tutorials from a year+ ago, it's much smaller. Wouldn't this sort of growth influence people's ability to run a node (at least a "cloud based" one)?

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     6 years ago  

    More on that subject in my Steem Pressure series :-)
    Yes, as we grow it would be harder to run nodes on a random hardware.
    At the beginning there were people trying to adapt Steem nodes to RaspberryPi. ;-)
    But that's ok. Nobody expect nowadays to run Wikipedia backend on a homegrown PC.

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       6 years ago  

      Oh yes, there is indeed more on that subject in your Steem Pressure series 🤓
      Thank you for the answer and reference

      The Steem platform is getting bigger and bigger, and the Steem blockchain is taking more and more space.
      It will require more and more disk space for the blockchain and memory to keep the data ready to access when needed.
      Of course, developers are working on optimizing the utilization of server resources. Nonetheless, there will be more and more data to be processed

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