Ok its been a while since my last witness update, tbh my illness got the better of me, my mother got cancer and i lost motivation to post for a while.
However i have kept my witness server running with no missed blocks for 5 months and have been monitoring my witness and steemit daily, i just lost the motivation to post for a while.
I did have an issue for a while with my price feed, and was struggling with steemfeed-js crashing regularly so i i started using conductor and for the past 2 months my price feed has been updated every hour or so.
current witness position : 116
missed blocks : 9
running v 0.19.2
Updating price feed every hour with conductor.
Server specs :
Intel Xeon E3-1245
2 x 3TB Sata Enterprise
32GB DDR3 EEC RAM
Nic 1Gbit
Ive also been doing a bit of work on howtosteemit.com and steemfriends.com, 2 sites for steeemit newbies to learn about steemit or communicate about steemit.
steemfriends now has 200 users and howtosteemit is getting 4000 - 5000 hits per month (2000 - 3000 unique visiters per month)
Ive also got 2 techy friends involved with me now (@stin and @rcthompson) , helping with witness monitoring, web dev for steemfriends, howtosteemit and some new ideas to come.
I just want to say thanks to my witness voters for sticking with me and giving me your votes. and apologies for the lack of recent updates.
For those that unvoted me, possibly because my price feed wasn't updating, please consider giving me your vote again.
I am commited to steemit and have faith in it, thats why im still here after 1.5 years. thats why im still paying more to run my witness server than i get back. because i believe eventually i will reap the rewards like we all will if we stay positive and stick with steemit.
Please consider voting for me on the witness page.
to vote for me go to : https://steemit.com/~witnesses scroll down the page and enter pcste into the box (dont use @sign) then click vote