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Title: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: kindle on April 21, 2011, 02:21:58 AM I have a question about running bitcoin in server mode. I have about 3 computers running as miner and currently I have allocated 1 to be the server. Would running this be the same as running 3 individual bitcoin in server mode for each computers? Reason being that they remain independent and should anyone go down ie. the server, the rest will still be able to mine. I am more concern about the robustness of the setup rather then the convenience of check 3 separate wallets.
Cheers! Title: Re: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: error on April 21, 2011, 03:02:48 AM I have a question about running bitcoin in server mode. I have about 3 computers running as miner and currently I have allocated 1 to be the server. Would running this be the same as running 3 individual bitcoin in server mode for each computers? Reason being that they remain independent and should anyone go down ie. the server, the rest will still be able to mine. I am more concern about the robustness of the setup rather then the convenience of check 3 separate wallets. Cheers! If you're concerned about the server dying then perhaps you should have 3 separate wallets. Or a more robust server. :) Title: Re: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: kindle on April 21, 2011, 04:19:55 AM If you're concerned about the server dying then perhaps you should have 3 separate wallets. Or a more robust server. :) So are you saying that it doesn't affect the probability of mining a block when using 3 independent server compared to 1 server? Title: Re: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: error on April 21, 2011, 05:51:02 AM If you're concerned about the server dying then perhaps you should have 3 separate wallets. Or a more robust server. :) So are you saying that it doesn't affect the probability of mining a block when using 3 independent server compared to 1 server? Your 3 miners will keep mining as long as they are up and communicating with a bitcoind (or mining pool) server that has network access. The probability of finding a block is no different. Title: Re: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: deadlizard on April 21, 2011, 06:02:37 AM Would running this be the same as running 3 individual bitcoin in server mode for each computers? No, if your server goes down the other 2 will not get any work to do.but if you run 3 separate servers they will be competing with each other even if they each have a copy of the same wallet. It's best to have the server be a stable non-mining machine or use a pool I would personally connect to 3 pools and if one goes down the others could pick up the slack. Title: Re: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: kindle on April 21, 2011, 06:08:00 AM No, if your server goes down the other 2 will not get any work to do. but if you run 3 separate servers they will be competing with each other even if they each have a copy of the same wallet. It's best to have the server be a stable non-mining machine or use a pool I would personally connect to 3 pools and if one goes down the others could pick up the slack. How about running separate wallets/bitcoin -server individually? Will that affect the probability and hence worst than 1 main server? Title: Re: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: deadlizard on April 21, 2011, 06:40:11 AM No, if your server goes down the other 2 will not get any work to do. but if you run 3 separate servers they will be competing with each other even if they each have a copy of the same wallet. It's best to have the server be a stable non-mining machine or use a pool I would personally connect to 3 pools and if one goes down the others could pick up the slack. How about running separate wallets/bitcoin -server individually? Will that affect the probability and hence worst than 1 main server? Title: Re: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: MrGaSp on April 21, 2011, 08:05:01 AM No, if your server goes down the other 2 will not get any work to do. but if you run 3 separate servers they will be competing with each other even if they each have a copy of the same wallet. It's best to have the server be a stable non-mining machine or use a pool I would personally connect to 3 pools and if one goes down the others could pick up the slack. How about running separate wallets/bitcoin -server individually? Will that affect the probability and hence worst than 1 main server? I'd like to see how this guy got a block with only 1.5MH/s ... You wont be competing against your self, you'd be rolling 3 dice at different times, instead of all 3 at once, none will prevent another from succeeding Title: Re: Solo Mining Question (bitcoin -server) Post by: deadlizard on April 21, 2011, 08:17:43 AM You wont be competing against your self, you'd be rolling 3 dice at different times, instead of all 3 at once, none will prevent another from succeeding None will prevent another from succeeding but each on its own has less chance than all 3 working together. this is why mining pools work. |
