The journey continues in the Steemian sea
We roam the waters proud and free
Plunder and gold await our hold
Another week sailed in the crypto world
Yarghhhh! *** #### Witness Status - Yesterday my witness node missed a block. I promptly tried to check the server but it was unreachable! I tried to contact the provider but it was Sunday, so I didn't get a reply. As a temporary solution, I disabled the witness in my Steem account and quickly reconfigured my seed node to run as witness, until I figure out what was happening. Today, my provider gave me feedback and apparently the server suffered some system panic and was frozen, they had to reboot it for me. So now the system is back up and running. The seed is currently replaying and should be up in no time. - I'm currently looking for an affordable secondary VPS to setup as a fail-over backup, in case of a future witness crash. Currently the witness is hosted in Germany, so I'd like a location in a different country, in the Netherlands preferably. - I gained more witness votes this week, and now I'm up to **Rank 53**, was at 62 last week! Thanks to my new benefactors, your votes are appreciated. If you would like to vote for me, please check the footer of this post. #### Help Status - It was a busy week in the help channel on Steemit.Chat. More sign-ups, therefore more delays and more user queries about their pending registrations. There are two new witnesses in town, @anarcho-andrei and @dimitrisp, I'm glad they have volunteered to give a hand in the help channel. This will ease the load on the rest of the active volunteers, like @timcliff, @pfunk and myself. Given the different users and helpers time zones, it can be frustrating for some users not to get help promptly. One user has voiced this concern, so I hope more witnesses would join our volunteer work in order to cover as much time zones as possible. Steemit.com is still in beta, and they have their hands full with the development. Until the day they streamline the sign-up process, we have to make due with this temporary "patch". *** [Witnesses are the backbone of Steem](https://steemit.com/faq.html#What_are_Steem_witnesses), they host the blockchain in the background, and I'm happy to be part of that. https://steemitimages.com/DQmNSSwaE1NhJL9bSpGdGiAVeecXEYwYdRVpyKtG81YpYTN/atlas-witnesses.jpg *** _{Proud member and delegator of the @minnowsupport project.
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Thank you. [![Vote](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSrdotiz3bH9tvXanpVHF5LVxdzUTgcwswnrBN5nGdj63/vote-drakos.png)](https://steemit.com/~witnesses) ###### Alternatively, you can issue this command in ```cli_wallet``` (after unlocking it) ```vote_for_witness "YOURACCOUNT" "drakos" true true```