Wow - what a week!
First of all - thanks to a huge Vote from 
This is huge for me and I couldn't be happier.
Especially reaching Top 50 within 1-2 weeks after posting my introduction post - blew my mind.
While some of you might think that this happened fast - maybe too fast, I won't argue with it happening fast. However, I'm confident in my ability & vision as a developer, witness & steemian - since I've pretty much done nothing else for the last 5-6 months and will continue to push myself.
With great power - comes great responsibility.
I expected to sign 1 block every day (which was already great) for the next weeks / months, but due to my #48 rank, I currently sign roughly 1 every hour - which results in extra measures that had to be taken, to make sure that:
1.) I don't miss any blocks
2.) If I miss blocks, that I have a backup node ready and a kill-switch to disabled the witness if both nodes are down
New 64GB RAM Server
That's why I ordered and setup a 64GB-Server(DE) from Privex - which is my new main node.
I understand the problematic of having too many nodes from the same provider / in the same datacenter - but I'm currently not cashing out any of my earnings from Steem - and the ability to pay with SBD & STEEM is really useful for me.
However, I am going to order a 64GB Server in Sweden from Privex as soon as they are ready and will change my current 32GB Node to a Seed Node with ZRAM enabled.
So then at the least the data centers are more diversified. But the future goal will be to use an external provider as 3rd Backup Node.
Kill-Switch
I have also set up conductor with the kill-switch feature from 
A thanks also goes out to 
Utopian.io Registration
As you might know, I'm developing the registration for utopian. And it's nearly done - currently in an open test state.
You can check it out at: https://signup.utopian.io - accounts will however only be created on the test-net for now.
Next to my work as Witness and the work for utopian, I'm also developing, managing and improving my own project: smartsteem.
Vote-Selling is currently not the most giving business model for the Steem Ecosystem - but my goal is to make smartsteem as fair as possible for all users and use it as the foundation for coming projects.
And that's pretty much it - all in all, my activity on steem related topics feels currently like a 24/7 job - but I like it!
I will try to make this update a weekly thing - but I'll at least do one when important things are happening.