It's been almost 2 hours (plus 30 minutes more for this post)... working late on this.

Everyone is asleep for hours... but I keep exploring! Work has already put me KO, but crypto still pumps me a bit more to learn or accomplish an extra mile more on whatever objective I have set at "my yellow post-its".

Docker Witness Node

Running for more than 8 days!
I can only say that, with uptimes of +150 days in the type of NAS I have, I only expect this to be very stable. I had to pause the Ethereum node due to heat reasons. But once I have my new stash of disks, I will care less for that. And it will be FULL STEEM!

Possibly I can enable some additional API's... but that will come later. First, my focus is on bringing the best quality of service to the community (in regards to the Witness node).

I have another mate in Auckland, and let's say that we both have somehow common interests. And my idea is to run another node of STEEM there. Using @furion kill-switch from the conductor tool he made. Nice stuff!...
Check it out and also provide feedback to him... It helps improving things.

Testing price feed and other SteemTools

Today's objective was to use an Ubuntu VM, and test some of the tools available out there. I have tried the conductor from @furion and the "Instant price-feed" from @someguy123.

It's kind of late and I have been sleeping very badly... so for today, progress was being able to play with some tools. I still need to understand what I think will be best for my environment.

TODO for My Witness:

Have a dockerized solution for the price feed.
~~Have price feed updated automatically~~ (DONE)
Build a historical of my updates as a Witness (it's kind of, all over the place right now).
Add a new webpage for my Witness (not sure yet what).
Add monitoring to Grafana for my internal monitoring.
BUY A F....ing... UPS! =)

Around New Year... if all goes as planned, my mate has already his NAS upgraded, and then I will be implementing IN LOCO, the second node.

Cheers to you ALL, and thank you for the support. This is a #TeamNewZealand movement!

EDIT (2/12/2017):

I have done some progress on SteemTools over the last 2 days. Spent a great deal re-learning stuff that I do not touch for years (interesting to see how hard is to re-begin). There is a post that I, unfortunately, have not manage to delete in time. But on the other hand, it now serves as a test post. It's this one: Live Testing Post... #1 (DO NOT VOTE)... This was a test and I failed to delete the post - Now being used for Live Testing!

I also managed to get the price feed being updated automatically using @furion conductor, but not yet on a docker like I wanted. I sill need to do some additional tests to be sure if this is going to be the easier solution to me. I have also something to say about it, in regards to documentation that can be improved since I had to pass through the burning stones already. It will all come in the next witness post.