With all the issues, that we have been having with steemit and the expansion of steem running a 16GB Witness server seems far fetched now.
Checking up in the witness channel on steemit.chat I have noticed this and many issues with the size of ram current witnesses have and many have over 16 GBs of ram a couple months ago that was thought to be enough for another couple more months, now since steemit is ever growing at a much faster rate, 16 GB is no match for its growth, Sure a 32 GB upgrade would be sufficient ... but for how long?
64 GB server Maybe 100 GB?
I have decided to fool proof my witness node server , and decided 64 GB is a good amount to maybe run for another couple of months.
The reason being is steemit is not even at half a million users and even than, only half of those accounts are actual humans and active.
By the end of this year this is how my server room will look like for steemit alone.
So I have contacted 
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