On August 6th we sent an email highlighting the new uptime policy for xx network nodes coming online in August. Please read below and let us know if you have any questions.
August 2020 Uptime Policy
The xx network is tentatively targeting a 50% uptime policy for August 2020. This means that, with caveats, a node needs to be online for at least 50% of the month of August to receive compensation for the month.
A node will be online as long as it is pinging the permissioning server regularly. If at the dashboard and your node is listed as either “Online” or “Error” it is still online for the purpose of compensation for the month of August.
On the individual node pages on the dashboard there is now a monthly uptime metric to inform you of your progress.
Node uptime is not tracked while xx networks servers are down and such periods will not be counted. In the event the network is down due to a software update or a bug caused by the xx network team, those periods will also not count towards uptime.
Per the handbook, grace periods for software updates will not be considered part of uptime calculations for nodes who do not have automatic updates enabled. We are still working on ensuring the dashboard reflects this.
Grace Period
Nodes who are joining the network for the first time this month will have the entire month of August as a grace period. This only includes nodes who registered initially to start in August. If this month is a grace period for your node, you will receive an email notifying you.
We are sympathetic to node operators who are struggling due to the difficult times. We will strive to work with nodes on a one on one basis to ensure they can participate. If your situation warrants a grace period outside of the previous policy, please email us at [email protected].
Technical details of uptime tracking
Whenever a node polls the permissioning server for network state updates, as long as the network is up, the node is properly authenticated, the node is not banned, it will increment a poll counter for that node. Every 5 minutes the poll counters are stored as “node metrics” in a database and cleared. As long as that counter is greater than 0, the node is considered online for that period. That is what is included in the uptime metric on the dashboard.