Hello everyone,
After spending some time trying out a witness node setup and making sure I'm comfortable with maintaining it, I decided to create a witness proposal.
It consists of 2 Azure instances (1 active and 1 backup) on different regions. Due to the low CPU requirements of the witness node as opposed to RAM, these are burstable Standard_B4ms (4 core 16gb RAM) instances with managed SSD drives.
Since they are Azure VMs, theyre also very easy/fast to upgrade if required.
I am also running a smaller instance as a testnet witness (clockwork.witness-1) for 2 weeks now with no issues.
I am currently using roelandp's witness monitoring script which I'm working on modifying to make use of Azure's Python SDK to automate witness maintenance.
In terms of community involvement, I am a BitShares committee member (
clockwork) and I also created and maintain
http://committee.bitshares.works for committee announcements and news.
I am also very active in telegram and discord.
Finally, I am planning to launch a full API node as well to help with network load. I will update here as soon as it's set up.
So please vote for witness:
clockworkThank you