# Node had to be offline for a few days. Continue or restart node from fresh?

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**Category:** Node Operators\
**Tags:** online-score, downtime\
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/node-had-to-be-offline-for-a-few-days-continue-or-restart-node-from-fresh/21686 "2023-03-03T22:36:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/node-had-to-be-offline-for-a-few-days-continue-or-restart-node-from-fresh/21686/1 "2023-03-03T22:36:43Z")

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Hey everyone,

My 3 nodes recently got vetted and they’re getting much more ingress (and also egress). However, the three nodes were overwhelming my Raspberry Pi 3. Since, my nodes were running not stable anymore, I made the decision to turn off the third and newest node, so that the others can survive.

After around a week of only running the first two nodes, my new Raspberry Pi4 arrived and I migrated these to the new Pi4. I then started the third node on the old Pi3.

I knew that I’ll get bad online scores for the third node, since it was offline for around 5 days just when it reached 100% vetting on US1/EU1. These are now my online scores after coming online again:

 ![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/7/78399d845829e3e537997270cb66ad6e04280b8d.png)

From my quick estimation, I’m getting around 40 GB ingress per day on the third node (despite being offline for so long). It could be however, that the ingress will be reduced after a while when the status has updated the ingress algorithms.

I could alternatively just wipe the node and start a new one. After all, it took only a month of vetting - and I’ve a quite robust setup where I won’t make so many changes in the first month. But then, I’ll be again at just a few GBs of ingress per day for a full month.

What do you think? What experiences did you have? Would you continue or wipe the third node?

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