SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #22
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This post is intended to cover the server costs for SteemWorld.org and to enable me to continue my development in the future.
In case you missed the first part:
SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #1
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Dieser Post ist dafür gedacht die Serverkosten für SteemWorld.org zu decken und mir in Zukunft weitere Entwicklungen zu ermöglichen.
Falls du den ersten Teil verpasst haben solltest:
SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #1
Updates
As I mentioned in my last post, I'm currently working on my Open Source Steem Data Service and I've already made great progress with it. The old (current) SteemWorld backends both run on PHP (one dedicated machine for serving the account data requests coming from steemworld.org and one simple host for providing the page itself and for acting as kind of a backup storage). The new backend will use my coming Steem Data Service and it will be based purely on Node.js, which outperforms Apache/PHP with ease as shown in the following diagram:
Source: https://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/comparing-node-js-vs-php-performance
I guess some of you can image that it's kind of an adventure to convert the existing backend logic from PHP to asynchronous JS, but I already can tell you that it's worth it without any doubt. Future is here and I'm finally working with JavaScript on the client and the server side without the need of switching between different languages anymore. In one word I would just call it: Brilliant!
Switching To New Server
I was searching for solutions regarding server costs reduction for quite some time now and I'm glad to have found a provider, that offers way stronger servers for nearly half the costs of my current setup. The funny? part is, that it is the same company but just a different way to establish the contract. In other words: Don't get fooled by server providers on Steem, which are just making the contract between you and the real world... You know.
The switch might lead to a temporary outage for some features on SteemWorld in the coming week. I will inform you about any details in an additional post in the next few days.
Open Source Steem Service
I guess you would love me, if you would know what I'm currently developing here. Time for explaining it in detail now is null, because a day only has 24 hours and ~ 17 of them already go into coding. 7 days a week. Builders of new worlds don't work just sometimes, they sleep sometimes. Focus and fascination are the key!
Some basic points I already can state here:
- Can be run locally (even on your grandma's home pc) or as public web service
- Enables
each of usto analyze and work with the Steem blockchain data in a simple and very efficient way (SQL and custom queries can be used too) - Syncing is possible via available public instances (very fast) or regular Steem nodes
- Provides automatic downloading of already parsed data (no need to start from block 1)
- No need to setup any database services (all file-based -> no layers in between -> lightning fast)
- Offers configurable datasets (if you just need a DB with all transfers for example, you can run an instance with only the desired parser module 'transfers' enabled)
- JS developers can easily implement own parser modules (just add a custom script in the modules path and the service will call the
parseBlock,parseTransaction,parseOperationandparseVirtualOperationmethods within your script for each block) - Also 'virtual operations' can be parsed (or downloaded from one of my servers that will provide all parsed datasets in nearly realtime)
- Highly compressed data (some crazy stuff and a bit of magic involved here, more details on this soon)
- Interfaces to other database systems planned
- Completely free to use, will be released under MIT license
In the making
- Preparing the coming server switch
- Open Source Steem Data Service
- Post Viewer & Editor
- Different views / no limit in the posts overview
- Details for coming rewards (number of posts/comments, maybe a pie chart)
- Improved coming curation rewards overview
- RC costs calculation
- SteemWorld -> Open Source?
Links
EN | What is SteemWorld?
-> Welcome to SteemWorld.org!
DE | Was ist SteemWorld?
-> Willkommen auf SteemWorld.org!
Thank you for supporting my work!
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Tolle Arbeit!!
This sounds like an epic post with a cliffhanger :D Can't wait to see what it is you're exactly building - good luck and take some time off as well, please? :D Work-Sleep-Work-Sleep-Work...
As long as I live the life of a working slave robot here in Germany, there is no time for family or any other things in my life. I have been working for the last 5 years in full time at home only to be able to pay for my monthly health insurance (even if I didn't use their forced 'service' in all the years. Not once. So we pay for the unhealthy lifestyle of other people here. 50% of my monthly earnings goes to health insurance, the rest is being used to pay for my apartment and food). Same goes for the German television propaganda service. I am forced to pay for that (they really force you, I tried it) without me even owning a device for receiving their bullshit.
My next step is to leave this slave country to finally be able to live a real life. That's the whole truth about Germany. Small businesses are being suppressed and the 'normal' workers don't see the real picture of their own country, mainly because of the drugs they take through the daily 'normal' food and drinks and a manipulated world view, which is propagated through the mentioned 'forced-to-pay-for' television services.
That's crazy, we're living in neighbouring countries, but sounds like the differences are huge. Here in the Netherlands I pay 120,- a month (could go as cheap as 95,- but I need the 'extra' hehe) for health insurance, I would feel really bad if it took half my salary :-/
Here often tv comes with the internet package and although options start to come up to ONLY pay for internet, it's striking me as weird that I always pay for tv even though I'm not watching it. Is that the same for you? Or do you actually pay an obligated fee for tv?
Just curious since we're living so close what the differences are :-) Never heard of this!
Sorry to hear it's so bad, really hope you find a way out of this - wishing you good luck.
The rates go higher from year to year without any extra benefits. For a business that means, it must earn more each year too, otherwise it will die. Additionally the costs for visiting my family or friends are also reaching crazier levels each year. We created a system, that only works when we shut up and pay for creating our own coming diseases.
When one tries to speak about this stuff with people, who didn't grasp the evil reality of their own life, it ends in anger and the plan of separating friends and family goes hand in hand. The whole deep truth is even more sad, but I won't talk about that here.
The Netherlands seems to be a bit more 'human', but I recently calculated the costs of living their to be nearly the same (devil is not far away). The 95€ for health insurance sound good to me, here in Germany you need to double that at least for the minimum rate.
That's because the propagated world view shall enter the minds of as many people as possible. There is no easier way to accomplish this than by including it in as many services as possible. Many people will consume the shit and take it for real. No wonder why so many out there do share the same opinions, even if they don't make much sense, and why the dark truth seems so unreal for most of them.
Yes. I have a separate internet contract. We are forced to pay an obligated fee for tv here.
He is referring to health insurance for a self-employing person and a special fee which has to be paid for consumption of TV and radio stations comparing to Great Britain's BBC - see this wikipedia page for a list while I continue to look for the English term for those stations. ;)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_öffentlich-rechtlichen_HD-Programme_in_Europa
You could go unnoticed by the company who collects the fee for some time but they have started to buy address data some years ago.
And being self-employed with a small business in Germany takes a lot of the earned money from anyone working and living this way.
Some weeks ago, other Germans here already opted for getting him employed for some time to overcome the financial struggle. I don't remember how this discussion ended.
Seems like Ms Merkel is on her way out, I hope.
If its any comfort to you. @SteemChiller, the world outside Germany is getting much more darker, as China ramps up its Belt & Road Initiative.
All the very best. @SteemChiller.
There’s a small, but growing, remnant of sovereign individuals still thriving everywhere in the world.
Thank you for the work that you do on @Steemit.
Thanks for the link - and, I subscribed.
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Well, when Venezuela achieve it's freedom again (which will be very soon) you could move here.
Services are very cheap, food not but one's learn to manage, and public insurance is cheap too, there are private companies that offer insurance too, but you can take it if you want, it's not mandatory to have one.
Great weather, exquisite beaches, and nice people are the normal conditions here.
So, take this marvelous country into your considerations, again, not right now but in the near future.
Have an excellent and blessed day.
make sure you don't leave ANY leftists in the system...they are a virulent infection
jajajaja that's true! but sadly I can't do anything about it.
We 've to learn how to live together without harm to each other.
Like I love to say, I have my opinions, you have your opinions, they don't have to be the same, but please, don't try to change my mind, just: "let's agree to disagree". That's how I see is a perfect way and a good solution to this situation, not easy but it can be made.
You too are invited to come and enjoy this beautiful country ( in the near future)
I wish you the best in what is to come. Good Luck and stay safe!
Thanks! God is with us. Keep the positive energy coming ;)
Sorry, but experience has shown, all over the world, socialists/communists marxists/lefties, whatever you want to call them, they do not believe you have the right to have an opinion different from theirs...so you will fail if you allow them to keep educating your children (for example)
I remember that from when I was a student there. €106 for TV tax even though I didn't have one.
Who watches TV anymore? Everything's on the net.
My student visa was for six months, so we had to pay for everything up front. I have never seen so many unmentioned fees in my life, no one told us about many of them before leaving America.
This was my first time living in a socialist country.
Fortunately, I left for home without paying it. The German people were wonderful though.
Wow - I had no idea the situation in Germany was even worse than here in the UK. I don't have a propaganda box, so I don't pay for the propaganda (unless you count the tax money spent on the company that sends me ridiculous threatening letters about it every week). Small businesses are being suppressed here too - this has been going on for decades.
One sign that the Yellow Vest protests are making an impact is that petrol prices, which skyrocketed a few months ago, have quietly returned to their former level.
I for one @steemchiller appreciate hearing a little more about this and that you still retain within you the will and determination to resist. Don't give up!
While our situation is not as grim in America, not yet anyway, it doesn't take that much imagination to see it is not far away. If we continue on our current course ...
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Danke für diese Zusammenfassung.
Ist traurig aber es ist in großen Teilen wahr.
Ich sehe für mich hier auch keine große Zukunft.
Wir sind gerade dabei uns im Ausland eine zweite Existenz aufzubauen.
I appreciate your work and this is no criticism related to any kind of it but you totally overdramatize the situation in germany.
Costs for german tv are 17,50 Euros the month and a private health insurance is around 300-400 euros the month. This qualifies for high level medical supplies since a private insured is preferred in germany's two-class medical system. So you are telling me you have an income of 800 euros?
I can not believe this since the minimum wage is around 1.200 euros net the month including a health insurance!
I am not saying that germany is capitalist's paradise but in fact your description is wrong.
There is no minimum wage for self employed people in Germany and I don't use a private health insurance. My income is about 500 € on average. There is nothing wrong with my description.
Working for 2.89 euros the hour is ridiculous. You are not working but doing your hobby. You could even get additional money from the state for having such a low income. 9.19 is the minimum wage, working for less is not the fault of the state but totally your own fault. I can add my time playing computer games and call it full-time and then complain about the state making a slave out of me.
If you can not make money with your self employment you will have a hard time anywhere in the world. Going for below 30 euros the hour as an self employed is ridiculous and you go much deeper. This is clear, your self employment has failed hard. Pure capitalism will make you fail even harder if you go on calculating like this.
We live a minimalists life and we don't need many things for being alive and feeling good. You calculate the income for the average materialist here and you see any numbers below your defined materialists optimum as incorrect/inacceptable. That shows, in Germany it is exactly as I stated. We must behave as it is dictated, as the normal human needs to be, buy things we don't really need and live an ordinary life.
Otherwise the numbers don't fit, which shows that there is a defined line the average robot has to walk on. Many things, that you include in your calculation, are not included in my life, because I don't need them, therefore I don't have any unneeded self created expenses.
Did you ever try that yourself or are you just assuming everybody can do it, because it's a common law? By accepting money from the state you are signing a contract that takes away the freedom of choosing what and who to work for. You aren't even allowed to leave your town without calling the authorities in advance to inform them about it. As I stated, the normal workers in Germany don't have a clue about what is really going on in their own country.
You really assume the cost of living in other countries to be as high as in Germany? My girlfriend and I would be able to live a way more peaceful life in many asian countries with the same monthly income that we now have (~1000 €) and we could even put some money aside.
Hey buddy been trying to claim accounts with Keychain but I keep getting an error saying no error from Keychain yet it does not claim the accounts with RC, had to resort to uninstalling Keychain to then be able to claim accounts with active key.
I don't know what their priorities are at the moment, but I reported this already in last December:
https://github.com/MattyIce/steem-keychain/issues/64
I hope that KeyChain will be actively developed on again, otherwise we need somebody to fork it and fill the gaps or build something new...
Alright thanks for the response 👍
Yea I hope they work on it again, I really like the project and it’s potential use cases! For myself with multiple accounts it really helps with the constant back and forth between my account and the community accounts.
Keep up the good work buddy 💪
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Good service to use. Glad I can contribute the little I can all the time.
Great service for steemians.
Keep on postin
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Thank you for continuing the development of this great service for Steemians! I am encouraged by the progress seen across the ecosystem which continues to establish a strong base for the future.
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Amazing work that you do (what I understand of it, which is also about null), but I LOVE that it works so well, and I use the site a LOT. I, and I'm sure most of the collective 'we', sure appreciate all you put into this, how helpful it is, and hope you get enough sleep as well. All work and no play gives us a GREAT tool, but also runs you ragged. Take care of yourself, and thanks again for the works you do. DD
Awesome work @steemchiller.
Full 100%, resteemed and send a little donation to support your work.
Why do you not try dclick in your weekly post ?
Should be a good possibility to show some steem love for minnows too ;-)
Awesome news though a great work must to be done to convert it as you mentioned. But of course it will worth it, go on!
Happy weekend!
You are an honest to goodness gem @steemchiller Love, Blessings & Peace to you. Gratitude & Many thanks for the good you do for the community of Steem Blockchain 💘