I am going to try to keep this short and sweet and to the point.
Short Version
My Witness Node has been down for a long time.
I know and have been working on it slowly.
It should be back up next week.
Long Version
My Witness Node was running on my SuperMicro NAS originally. This was on spinning disk hard drives so it wasn't ideal. I then went out and got a small Intel NUC computer and popped in two 1TB drives and figured that was more than enough and would get the system sync'd and running and everything would be great.
Well about 12 hours before the last replay of the blockchain finished.. I lost power for about 20 seconds during a bad storm. I made the stupid mistake of NOT having it plugged into my Battery Backup.
After power it back on the log files were corrupt and the entire blockchain wanted to replay which was fine. Yet the Block_log file was corrupt as well. I was pissed.
So I reinstalled the OS and started over. Went through the entire process again and just my luck I lost power again. I was pissed more than before because I KNEW that I needed to plug the computer into the Battery Backup and I still didn't do it.
Change of Plans
It was at this point where I said 'Fuck it'. I am going to rebuild the Witness Node on my SuperMicro NAS because I could give the VM as many Terabytes as it wanted and I wouldn't have to worry about it.
I also decided to repurpose my Intel NUC into a Home Lab system that will host a few apps that I utilize.
But during this past 2 months, I got a new position at my company which required a lot more of my daily focus on that. Also I had to travel 4 weeks for work which ate up a bunch of time. Then with everything else I had going on, this kept getting pushed back and back.
Recap
I am finally close to getting my Witness Node backup and online and hopefully I can streamline this process so that next time I get back up and running a whole lot quicker. Also once this is live and working, I am going to get my secondary/passive Witness Node up and running so that I can easily failover to the other node.
I am sorry
I will do better