Hi @ libertyranger

Yes, some of the instructions are kind of out of date ... and past the time when they cannot be edited. One of my pet hates with forums is how old, outdated information keeps getting indexed by Google AND ends up with higher ranks than the new, up to date stuff, because more visits over time. Grrrr. This does not happen with Wikis! But that's a whole other can of worms.

So, right now I have one witness server and one seed server, both trying to "replay" the downloaded copies of the blockchain. It's taking FOREVER. Three days and counting ... and this is merely replaying a chain they already have fully downloaded. VERY slow.

It seems that the RPC api doesn't come online until the block reindexing is complete ... or at least I hope that's the case. So, I cannot move on to the final steps until that's complete.

The amount of disk space required is a bit crazy, for a hosted server. I have had to split the shared memory file (whatever that is?) and the blockchain data across two volumes, because I've never even seen a web hosting server lease with a large (100G+) boot volume. This seems to be working OK. But it's a significant variation to any of the tutorials thus far.

Hive account@privix is hosting servers with suitable configuration out of the box. But having yet another seed server inside the same building doesn't make sense to me. The whole point of decentralization is to, well, decentralize!

Then there's the cost. I'm currently paying US$100/mth, which health/home bound person is more than I can afford. It's clear that I won't be making more than a few SBD a month for a long time. Thus, I doubt I'll be keeping these servers going for long after my initial learning curve.

That said, running a server at home on a 100Mb fibre connection wouldn't be nearly as costly, assuming I already had a spare box to stick it on. But, despite seven computers here, I just don't. :p (They're mostly just too old / slow for this purpose.)

Re the offer, I'm could do what I've done to date for you on a server . for you. However, I think it would be best to get mine fully operational -- to complete the learning experience -- before I made any promises. Even then, it's probably of more value for me to document my process. Give a man a fish and all that. ;-)

Thanks for the reply! Have a great day!