We are back up. I suspect there's more bad hardware on this server than the dead disk. Might have to move over to a new one later today instead of waiting for disk change tomorrow. Don't want a server that keeps locking up for no reason and with no evidence as to why.

Yes, the server went down. Doing a hardware reset to get it back to life. Shouldn't be long.

Ah you are not the user I thought. Actually there are no failed logins from you in the logs. Perhaps the miner needs http:// in the URL? I haven't tried ztexminer myself.

What error message are you getting, exactly?


That's the way it should look, although I believe I also made it work with a period instead of the underscore if I remember right, because some pools use that too.


Sadly it doesn't support ztex FPGAs yet. I also don't know if I will have time to add support for them before ASICs are out. Not sure if it will still make sense then, but perhaps.

Awesome

That's everyone except kujayhawk I think. Please look in your email inbox, last call.

If you are the user I think you are then you have the username and workername right but the password wrong. I assume you are using the password you gave the worker on the worker page of the website? Make sure caps lock is off when typing the password, and if you use different keyboard language layouts that this isn't switched wrong. Can't really think of anything else.


Yeah, this happened with an ISP I was using. They were suddenly completely incompetent with lots of downtime. I finally gave up and switched ISP. Crossing my fingers for the disk replacement friday though.

Everything is up and running again as normal.

New appointment to change the disk is 14.09.2012 at 12 CEST. That's friday at 10:00 UTC.

BitMinter will disappear a moment before that and I hope this time will not be gone for so long, and hopefully have a new disk when it boots back up.


Oh. My. God. I'm starting to understand why they are so much cheaper than everyone else.

I announced it the day before here and on twitter, and wrote same places when it went down (a few minutes late here, though).

I know 1 day notice isn't long, but I don't like running a degraded raid-1 array longer than necessary.

I also thought changing a disk is quick. I know it is when I do it myself.


Thanks. Yeah, the website is up and the mining pool backend will be up in a second (bitcoind being slow to start up).

Nice customer support by Hetzner.

Yesterday I made an appointment to get the disk replaced at 18:00 CEST and sent them all info they need. They confirmed.

Today I send emails and get no reply. On phone is endless waiting with music. Finally I get an email at 19:55 saying it was not possible to change the disk at the appointed time. Please make a new appointment.

Sorry, guys, I try to always keep the pool up, but this was out of my control.

Trying to now get the damn server back up again. All this downtime for nothing.

Hehe. 5 minutes = how long I thought changing a disk on a server takes.

Almost 1 hour and counting = how long it actually takes?

#bitminter on freenode

Yep, I wrote on twitter that the server is going on but forgot to write it here.

It is indeed the announced downtime to replace a hard drive. Hope the server comes back to life soon. *tap foot*

Certainly. That's also coming.

Short downtime tomorrow at 16:00 UTC to get a fresh disk in.

Yes. I'm starting to hate disks. Second time since I started BitMinter that a disk dies.

Hopefully the new disk will go in tomorrow. Hoping for something like a 5 minute downtime. Until then, let's mint some coins.

Sorry, everything slowed down for a moment as the disk started coughing and sputtering error messages in its final death throes.

Now running smoothly on 1 disk. I'm waiting on response from datacenter techs to arrange to have the faulty disk replaced. Expect a hopefully brief downtime again when they are ready to replace it.

Everything up and running again.

But will probably need to take some downtime soon, as a disk in a raid-1 array looks like it's dying.

Server suddenly went down. Investigating.

No, it's not ready yet. I got the new version almost ready this weekend, but hit a snag. Having an issue with delayed response of pipelined HTTP requests. One of the new things is delaying response for extremely low efficiency miners to give priority to miners that are acting properly, in case of DoS attacks or bugs. I would like to still support pipelined requests, so I need to fix this. Hopefully working soon.

I will announce any changes here as they are made or before.

BitMinter pays out orphans for a 1% donation. Maybe that doesn't fit easily in the tables, though.

The warning is standard for Java Webstart when you are running an app that needs full access to your computer. BitMinter client needs that or it can't access GPUs and serial ports. It's sandbox or no sandbox, and you can't mine in the sandbox.

The Ask toolbar is installed by Java, not BitMinter. When you install Java on Windows you have to be careful and remove the checkmark when you get to the page about the Ask toolbar. Don't click "next" too quickly. You can read about it, for example here: http://www.quora.com/Java-programming-language/Why-does-Java-for-Windows-include-Ask-Toolbar-nowadays

It's almost hard to believe Oracle would do this. But then you remember how greedy they are. Oh, that's right.

BitMinter has been around for well over a year. Never missed a payout. Never had bundleware or malware in the client. If you feel uneasy using closed source software then cgminer is an excellent console (text mode) miner, or you can use GUIminer if you want a GUI.