**STEEM-in-a-box Description** - Steem-in-a-box is a toolkit made for witnesses, to ease the pain of deploying a witness or seed server. It includes helpful commands such as `dlblocks` which automatically grabs the Blockchain from @gtg's server, extracts it, and installs it into the correct directory.

# If you're looking to set up a NEW witness server, please follow the [Steem-in-a-box HF19 instructions](https://steemit.com/steem/@someguy123/your-guide-to-setting-up-a-witness-server-steem-in-a-box-hf19)

The v0.19.2 update is important for witnesses as it adds in some fixes to the P2P code. This may help resolve the spout of block misses we've seen recently.

<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://i.imgur.com/XOsLHJQ.png)</center>

# Upgrade Step 1. UPDATE YOUR SEED NODES

This is important. It's been a while since Steem-in-a-box had it's seeds updated, and many of them are offline. I have published a new seed list into the example config, which means new witnesses will already have the updated seeds.

Please update your `config.ini` with this seed list (you may want to also remove all previous seeds incase they are offline).

```

# P2P nodes to connect to on startup (may specify multiple times)
seed-node = anyx.co:2001                        # @anyx (CA)
seed-node = gtg.steem.house:2001                # @gtg (PL)
seed-node = seed.steemnodes.com:2001            # @wackou (NL)
seed-node = 192.99.3.29:2001                    # joseph
seed-node = 5.9.18.213:2001                     # pfunk
seed-node = lafonasteem.com:2001                # lafona
seed-node = seed.rossco99.com:2001              # rossco99
seed-node = steem-seed.altcap.io:40696          # ihashfury
seed-node = seed.steemfeeder.com:2001           # au1nethyb1
seed-node = seed.roelandp.nl:2001               # roelandp
seed-node = steem.global:2001                   # klye
seed-node = seed.esteem.ws:2001                 # good-karma
seed-node = 176.31.126.187:2001                 # timcliff
seed-node = seed.thecryptodrive.com:2001        # thecryptodrive
seed-node = steem-id.altexplorer.xyz:2001       # steem-id
seed-node = seed.bitcoiner.me:2001              # bitcoiner
seed-node = 104.199.118.92:2001                 # clayop
seed-node = seed.steemviz.com:2001              # ausbitbank
seed-node = steem-seed.lukestokes.info:2001     # lukestokes
seed-node = seed.blackrift.net:2001             # drakos
seed-node = seed.jerrybanfield.com:2001         # @jerrybanfield (USA)
```

# Upgrade Step 2.

Grab the latest Steem-in-a-box code. There may have been improvements to the `run.sh` script.

```
cd steem-docker
git pull
```

# Upgrade Step 3.

Disable your signing key, or switch to your backup server. 

**@furion's conductor**

```
conductor disable
```

cli_wallet

```
update_witness "yourname" "https://steemit.com/witness-category/@yourname/thread" "STM1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm" {"account_creation_fee":"0.200 STEEM","maximum_block_size":65536,"sbd_interest_rate":0} true
```

# Upgrade Step 4.

Stop the server

```
./run.sh stop
```

Install the new release

```
./run.sh install
```

Assuming you were on v0.19.1 previously, you should be able to start the server again, without the need for a replay.


```
./run.sh start
```

Check your logs with
```
./run.sh logs
```

If all went well, you'll see this:


```
802147ms th_a       witness_plugin.cpp:487        plugin_startup       ] witness plugin:  plugin_startup() begin
802147ms th_a       witness_plugin.cpp:492        plugin_startup       ] Launching block production for 1 witnesses.
802147ms th_a       witness_plugin.cpp:493        plugin_startup       ] _witnesses: ["someguy123"]
802147ms th_a       witness_plugin.cpp:507        plugin_startup       ] witness plugin:  plugin_startup() end
802148ms th_a       main.cpp:198                  operator()           ] Started witness node on a chain with 15079834 blocks.
804050ms th_a       application.cpp:514           handle_block         ] Got 17 transactions on block 15079867 by busy.witness -- latency: 50 ms
807070ms th_a       application.cpp:514           handle_block         ] Got 18 transactions on block 15079868 by bhuz -- latency: 70 ms
```

# You're now on v0.19.2 - congratulations. It may take a while to show up on Steemd/SteemDB, as it is only updated when you get a block.

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