This is amazing. I've held off on running my own witness because I'm more of a programer than an OPS guy, but this is really tempting me to try it out.
Can you recommend a solid host for your witness? Roughly how much do you spend on hosting/bandwidth costs each month to keep your Witness up?
Thanks again for this fantastic resource. When it's this easy to get going, I think we'll always have plenty of witnesses in the Steemit ecosystem.
vultr.com Vitrual Private Server (vps). $40/mth for an 8gig ram system. I think that might work. Still figuring it out myself.
I use hetzner.de, I'm pretty happy with them.
Thanks for replying.
My company @privex offers a small 8GB VPS, perfect for witnesses, for just $30/mo - unlike other hosts, we guarantee you won't miss any blocks (assuming your witness is configured correctly, which we can help you with).
If you miss a block on our network, we'll refund you $2 for each block.
We also take STEEM, LTC, and BTC, unlike most big hosts :)
PM me on STEEMIT.CHAT if you're interested
Thanks, I may give that a shot! I like the idea of supporting a fellow Steemian and paying in STEEM currency.
I highly recommend contabo.com
Note that @furion did not mention: do not run these scripts on a machine you don't have physical control of, setting price feeds requires your active key.
i'm trying on contabo to install a witness node, without success. i can non update_witness in the wallet.
appreciable comment. going to follow you too :)
Thank you!
you could try omkhost.com
I've been up and running for just under two months as @lukestokes.mhth using @privex and I'm quite happy so far with it.