Are there any penalties or delays when lowering uptime below 99%?
No, only if you drop below 60% does the input stop until you recover
While there are no direct penalties, there are indirect impacts that will effect payout. Any down time longer than 4 hours will mark the pieces on your node as unhealthy, which means that they the ones that have dropped below the repair threshold because of this will be repaired to other nodes. And you will lose that data (it will later be cleaned up by garbage collection when your node is back online). Of course in addition to that you miss out on new ingress as well. Having recently experienced fairly significant down time of 12 hours, I can confirm that it cost me about 3-4% of data. And this will go up if you’re down longer.
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