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Hi

I'm doing some research on cloud mining and have set up a VPS on Azure to try it out. For better or worse, I'm mining Quark.

I have a test set up on and old Mac Mini at home that pretty much worked out of the box mining Quark using the wallet and after finally getting close to completely syncing with the blockchain started to show mined coins, I have 7500 approved QRK after a pretty short time.

However I have set up the Azure VPS, Windows Server 2008, 4 cores and replicated what I did on the Mac but no coins here. I installed the Quark wallet, it has fully synced the blockchain and currently has 8 connections but after days of this still not a single coin unlike my trusty old Mac.

Do I need to specifically open a port on the VPS or something? Is the wallet being blocked?

Any help on Windows would be appreciated.


...bit more info:

getmininginfo - From Mac Mini:

{

"blocks" : 2463929,

"currentblocksize" : 1000,

"currentblocktx" : 0,

"difficulty" : 0.06249911,

"errors" : "",

"generate" : true,

"genproclimit" : -1,

"hashespersec" : 19455,

"pooledtx" : 0,

"testnet" : false

}


getmininginfo - From Azure VPS Windows Server 2008:


{
"blocks" : 3770561,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 2979.82674287,
"errors" : "",
"genproclimit" : -1,
"networkhashps" : 1685645900,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"generate" : true,
"hashespersec" : 20573
}

Most cloud computing companies don't allow mining on their servers. I know this for fact with Google, and it's probably the same with Microsoft. Anyway if they somehow allow it (or don't catch you) if you are paying monthly maybe you should reconsider your investment since it wont be too profitable for you, or not profitable at all ! Your are better off just building your own rig.

Thanks for the advice. I'm just on a trial at the moment seeing if I can get it running, so maybe time to just try out on a pool and look into my own rig as you say. There's quite a bit to learn aye?

Thanks.