After the last little crisis of power failures and rushing to disable witnesses and such I've once again been inflicted with a loss of power.
Unfortunately.. This time is was a town wide power cut. So that means all my processes for getting everything disabled no longer worked as I require an internet connection and this particular one also took out the mobile internet towers, There was still a mobile connection sure but the speed was so slow I couldn't do anything.
Fortunately everything came back on rather quickly and I was able to get everything back up before any witnesses I manage missed blocks, A perk of being so low in the ranks.
I haven't ever bothered to run the witness watcher tools because I hate spending money and having a VPS costing £5 a month that 99% of the time doesn't do anything seems like a terrible idea.
And largely it wasn't needed. But now I'm getting up in the ranks the time between blocks is shrinking and it's looking like now is the time to actually set something like that up. Which is what I plan to do.
So that'll disable any witnesses I run the moment they miss a block.
But now I need to figure out how I'm going to manually disable witnesses in the event of having virtually no internet.
Cause of course if I have no internet at all the auto disable system will do the work, but if I can disable the witnesses sooner than I miss blocks then I will.
At this point I'm going to make scripts that will disable the witnesses I run one script each, It's 5 transactions, all I need is for internet to be good enough to get the data out and I should be fine.
Alternatively I make a program where I can throw a command out there somehow and boom everything disabled.
Alternatively alternatively... I could just not bother at all and like most other witnesses let it miss a block and auto disable with the witness watcher tools.
But anyways these issues are a little too frequent for my liking.. 2 unexpected downtimes this year.. 2 too many.. I miss the days of my server saying 720 days uptime.
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