Hey, I'm Rishi556, your friendly neighborhood witness. I don't do much, but the things I do I try to do well. Here's my current seed node stats and future expansion plans for it.

I've removed all seed nodes that I don't own the hardware for. This means that the NYC node that used to be up sadly has gone kaboom and isn't around anymore.

### How To Use My Seed Nodes

If you use the default config provided to you by hived, my node is one of the one's you'll connect to. If not, you can add the following line: `p2p-seed-node = hiveseed.rishipanthee.com:2001` to your config file and you'll be using my seed nodes :)

### Current

Currently I run 2 nodes, one in the San Fransisco Bay Area, and the other in Chicago. 

The node in the bay area does an average of 1.79 mbps of traffic. This is running on a Ryzen 5950X server with 128 gigs of ram and 2x2TB NVME drives. This has been running for nearly half a year with no issues!

The node in Chicago does an average of 1.40 mbps of traffic. This is running on a Ryzen 7950X3D server with 128 gigs of ram and 2x2TB of NVME drives. This has been running for nearly 300 days without any issues. 

There used to be a node in NYC and one in Kansas City but those have been killed.

### Future

I'm looking to bring back the NYC Seed node, this time on a owned server, most likely something like the following: https://www.thinkmate.com/system/asrock-1u4lw-b6502l2t-rpsu and possibly swapping the CPU out to a Ryzen 9000s series CPU. Estimating this to cost about $4,000.

Datacenter space for this will cost about $120/month(with some special discounts, depends on certain things going through). 

### How To Support

So if you like all this and want to keep it going, please vote for @rishi556 as a witness! All of this is funded from my witness earnings and having a higher rank will ensure that this can all be kept funded and going! You can easily vote here: https://vote.hive.uno/@rishi556