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# How To Restart Spotbit
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## Test Spotbit

### Is It Up?

Spotbit is available on the WWW at:
```
https://spotbit.info/spotbit/
```
That will tell you if the service is entirely up or down.

You can similarly test Spotbit by using the [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/download/) to visit the status page:
```
http://h6zwwkcivy2hjys6xpinlnz2f74dsmvltzsd4xb42vinhlcaoe7fdeqd.onion/status
```
It should return:
```
server is running
```

### Is It Showing an Error or Slow?

Often, the server can be running, but lookups can be very slow, or there can be a problem with the database. This can be diagnosed with:
```
http://h6zwwkcivy2hjys6xpinlnz2f74dsmvltzsd4xb42vinhlcaoe7fdeqd.onion/now/USD
```
And/or:
```
http://h6zwwkcivy2hjys6xpinlnz2f74dsmvltzsd4xb42vinhlcaoe7fdeqd.onion/now/USD/coinbasepro
```
The greatest latency usually shows up on the `/now/USD` command, without the exchange. If you wait a couple of seconds, that's pretty normative for the Tor connection. If you wait for more than 5, there's a latency problem that probably requires a restart.

(You may also see errors such as `err "database locked"`, which also reuquire a restart)

See the [Usage Instructions on GitHub](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/spotbit#usage-instructions) for more options for looking at present or past prices and for selecting different exchanges than the example `coinbasepro`.

## Accessing Spotbit

Spotbit is running on a 1GB Nanode node at Linode.

It can be accessed at `45.56.94.96`. 

Password is on a LP note and/or can be requested from Shannon or Chris.

## Restarting Spotbit

The simplest methdodology is to restart the Spotbit daemon:
```
# systemctl restart spotbit
```
If that doesn't work there may be a more in-depth methodology for taking down Spotbit and Tor in turn, but as of today's testing, I haven't developed it.

The ultimate answer is to reboot the machine.

This is best done from the Linode console, just click `Reboot` from the [main page](https://cloud.linode.com/linodes).
