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Hi all,

a while ago I started an additional Witness Server in order to double the numbers of snapshots created daily and therefore make the whole restore process a little faster.
**Current situation is that @primersion has a daily snapshot running at 11 am which gets published and is available over his [website](https://primersion.com/he-witnesses) under snapshots**.
In case of an incident or a fork *(the monster of fork seems quiet right now, thank god)* all affected witnesses need to download a snapshot, restore and then catch up to the always advancing head block of the chain, the older the snapshot is and/or the slower the used hardware *(nvme for the MongoDB rules)* the longer it takes until the witness catches up. 
But, **the faster enough witnesses are back to verify blocks, the faster the growing backlog gets worked through and pending transactions get executed.**

So, in short, I will use my backup witness server to create one additional snapshot each day, with 12 hours difference from the one @primersion is creating. Hosting will be done on one of my internet-facing servers, **once the process runs automated and stable the snapshot will also be available over the [site](https://primersion.com/he-witnesses) of @primersion**

## Server specs

That's not really a beast, but it's going to be enough thanks to the NVME where the MongoDB is located. At the core is a 6 Core Ryzen 1600, 16GB RAM, and a Gigabyte 1TB NVME running on PCIe3x *(so there would be room to improve but the MB does not have x4 capabilities)*

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*output of lswh -short*
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## ETA 
Well, it is like with every project in the IT world, it is done when it is done :)
My most educated guess would be something like Thursday or Friday this week. I will let you know once the process is stable.

## Hive Engine Witness
As said above, I also run a normal **witness for the Hive Engine Sidechain**, currently ranked at #19 

![hive_engine_witnesses.png](https://images.ecency.com/DQmSbNrVAso7Wu7z3XkRyrKHybSHTsD7iVZXEnNhp4FKdNL/hive_engine_witnesses.png)

Happy about every vote, if you also want to leave a vote, @primersion 's  [site](https://primersion.com/he-witnesses) is also capable of doing that ;)

Thanks a lot for reading! 

Have a nice evening, 

Jan