It took me 3 days to sync the whole blockchain from scratch on my new server, which was very fast, I remember that my old server, before I upgraded, took at least double that time.
Now that the witness node is setup and synced, it needs votes in order to be assigned a block faster, and test if there is any more settings and configuration to do.
Just because it is synced and seemingly configured doesn't mean it will for sure work, it is very likely that it can produce blocks properly, but unexpected things can happen.
I know other small witnesses and it is usual to find configuration bugs initially that can makes us miss a couple of blocks until everything is fixed.
During 1 year as a witness I have missed 15 blocks, that means that if my node is working properly I will be able to produce blocks and the number of missed won't go up.
But because I am low on the ranking of witnesses, I need your vote to produce blocks, if you have a spare one, would you consider voting for me as a witness?