For All Masternode Users - Uptime: Trust But Verify
Once you bring your masternode online - it is important to ensure both you server stays online and the masternode service is running. How do you know it is up and running unless you check? Well you can't do that 24/7 as we each have our lives to live, however the answer is simple. Engage a 3rd party monitoring service to check the status of your box and set it to email you if there is a problem. There are plenty of services - even free ones to do this for you. If your firewall instance allows ICMP (i.e. ping), then have it ping your server to establish regular server uptime statistics. Also, create a query instance to the port 28195, and that will let you know the masternode service is running. You can set all that up to be sent to your email - perhaps to your phone. Having monitoring in place is another piece to help further secure our network and help make CampusCoin robust.