I didn't expect to write a witness update so quick after my last one, but it seems that something was wrong with my witness-server, because it crashed .. again - even though I made sure to change ports - which sadly resulted in a missed block.

Nevertheless, diagnostics have been run and hardware failure could be ruled out.

That's why I'm setting it up again from scratch - this time I'm even building steemd myself - instead of the docker. Hopefully everything works out and I prob. will learn a bunch out of that.

I also ordered a new backup-server with 64G RAM from Hive account@privex right after the server crashed again, which I will set up as soon as it's ready.

I either update this post or make a quick new one as soon as everything is back to normal - just wanted to let my voters and the steem community know that I'm doing my best to handle the situation :)

1. Progress Update:

Setup steemd (without docker) and it's currently syncing the blockchain.

1504773ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #190000 time: 2016-03-31T07:30:51
1506617ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #200000 time: 2016-03-31T15:51:30
1508543ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #210000 time: 2016-04-01T00:11:33
1510470ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #220000 time: 2016-04-01T08:33:51
1512339ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #230000 time: 2016-04-01T16:59:24
1514257ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #240000 time: 2016-04-02T01:31:27
1516697ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #250000 time: 2016-04-02T09:56:12
1518591ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #260000 time: 2016-04-02T18:18:21
1520559ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #270000 time: 2016-04-03T02:45:09
1522902ms th_a       application.cpp:491           handle_block         ] Syncing Blockchain --- Got block: #280000 time: 2016-04-03T11:18:36

2. Progress Update:

The blocks started to sync but I couldn't get it to run with supervisor or monit (services to automatically run and stop steemd) due to weird permission errors with my created shared memory directories - so I decided to use steem-in-a-box and try the whole process on my backup-node as soon as it's ready.

Nevertheless, the witness is producing blocks again:

:)