Maximising uptime and performance

SOPs

1. Update your clients in a timely manner as these usually come with performance improvement fixes

   • Create a new server on Discord to receive alerts on new releases and patches of your execution layer and consensus layer clients. Keep this channel clean.

   • Set alerts from the announcement channels to your own server

2. Make sure your NTP service is active after running updates

3. Set up the monitoring suite detailed in this guide so that you are alerted on any downtime promptly

4. Maintain your own SOPs table for dealing with the various scenarios of downtime, including edge cases. Improve on this over time based on your own setup environment.

5. During normal operations, configure your clients to restart themselves automatically if they go down. This is in accordance to this guide

6. Prune your execution layer clients before you reach <300GB of available space

7. Check for scheduled sync committee duties here and block proposal duties here before starting the pruning process