You realize you're replying to comments from 2011 in this thread right?

One other question about some odd behavior.  I don't know if this is tied to the DDoS attacks but I'll ask anyway.  In my worker list page previously it would show all my workers, with a rough hash rate.  These days some workers seem to "go offline" on the worker page for several minutes at a time (sometimes 10+ minutes) reporting 0 work, even though I'm looking at the machine hashing away in front of me the whole time reporting shares.   I know the hash rate on the site is just an approximation and the numbers reported locally in the bitminter client or cgminer is the accurate figure, but before all my machines would at least show on the site reporting something.  These days I get a lot of false positives that a worker has gone offline (checking it over several minutes on the site, it still reports zero) but when I walk over to the machine it's sitting there happily crunching away.  Any ideas what's causing this?  I can assume the shares are still being accepted/counted by bit minter.  I guess this is something that would be mitigated by implementing the long awaited "idle worker" notification.

Any way to set the default worker display back to 10?  Trying to sort which machine is/isn't running is a pain now clicking around pages...  All my machines are up and down throughout the day and tracking down which one is toast is a pain with multiple pages.  I can't imaging too many users are over 10 workers. It wasn't taking up too much space before.  Just a request.... 8-)

Ah, I see.  Any way to change the number of workers displayed to a user pref?  I have 10 machines total and like to be able to see them all at once...  Besides that everything seem to be working fine.

What can you tell us about the DDoS and what changes you have made to mitigate the effects?  Don't give away any secrets here, but I'm interested.

Ok, that clears up some of the mystery here.  What about the workers that are no longer listed on my workers page?  Do I need to re-enter this information?  Also for the one machine that I use with cgminer do I need to change any settings? (It's currently on a backup pool but I would like to return to bitminter with it as it's my most powerful box)

Dr, can you clarify a little about what's going on with your server switch you mentioned earlier?  
At this time I'm seeing the following:

I have:
5 Machines listed on my worker list page, I used to have 10.
Each machine currently listed in the workers list page is a Java client.
2 of the 5 machines in my worker list are showing as active, one machine (the one I'm typing on actually) is also active,  but hasn't shown as active on the website since I started checking about 40 min ago.  The other 2 listed machines are shut down at the moment, but do show up as inactive on my workers page.
I'm missing 5 other workers from my list. Of these missing 5, 3 are currently active. (and looking at them here, they are hashing)
Of the missing machines, 2 are Java clients, 1 is a cgminer machine.  The remaining 2 missing machines are not active at this time (machines are powered down).   [/edit I have moved my cgminer box to a backup pool since posting this]

The worker machine total hash, and the main stats page total hash don't add even nearly close. (showing 1500 on main stats, 190 on worker)

I don't think anything nefarious is going on, but just looking for some clarity here.  I can understand this whole DDoS thing is annoying as fuck for you, and everyone else.

In a nutshell, every machine locally is hashing when I look at them, but only some are showing up on the site, and some others aren't showing up.  And my hash numbers on the site are all screwy.

Also should add each Java client is running 1.4 of your software, and each machine has the latest Java update that was pushed out a few days ago. (Java 7 update 25?)

/edit  Added more info and clarified.

You can bump the 5770 up to 256 work size. (or at least 192, I can't quite recall)

If you want just plain simple no hassle go with Bitminter although they've been having some DDoS attacks the last few days.   If you are a little more technically minded, check out CGminer.  Just be aware it requires some tinkering skills.  For absolute beginners though Bitminter is the way to go.  It's where I started before learning more about how all this works.  I've since graduated to CGminer on my machines.

Yea, as a proof of concept it's a neat idea.  Even if you collected every phone and tablet you could get your hands on you are still looking at a slow mining setup combined. BUT, and BUT is the key here, 1,000,000 phones crunching away is a huge boost, even if it's not all directed at one person.  A million phones also is only a tiny drop in the bucket of the possible phones available out there to mine....  It's feasible I guess.  While it would strengthen the network, no one would really win if this happened.  Difficulty would just go up even more hurting us normal miners.

I have some old iPhones crunching litecoin using "MobileMiner".  In 2 1/2 months I've made.......1 LTC total.  They sit on my desk at work crunching away out of sight, out of mind.

90% of the time, if your miner is submitting shares, they are being counted even if the website front end may be down.  I say 90 because there may be rare circumstances when that's not the case but Dr. will have to chime in on that.

There has been a large DDoS attack on Bitminter going on since 6-16-13.  Started a few hours before the difficulty change and has continued into today.  Mining has been sporadic because of this. 

It basically translates to:  Bigger pool with higher hash rate = more payouts that are smaller.   Smaller pool with lower hash rate = less payouts but the payouts are larger.  In the end it's more or less equal.  Some people just like to see money pile up a bit at a time vs a large payout every so often.

As I've been reading this thread over the last few months, it seems the 3x releases are geared more towards ASIC users, with little changes for GPU miners.  If things are stable, I'd stick with what you got.

You didn't do enough math.  You need to bank on other people not doing it either.  Buy a whole batch and sell for cash!  Yippee! 
You could probably mine on them also while they are in inventory adding to your reserve!
The money isn't in mining anymore, the new money is selling shovels to suckers.

Yea as soon as I get 2 I sell them ASAP.

You think thousands and thousands of GPU's dropping off SHA and switching to Scrypt won't massively increase the difficulty rate of Scrypt coins?

Just realized you can drag around the boxes in the 'Live Stats - Big' window.....

It's been a rough few days... True.   Oddly even my LTC miner pools are seeing rough luck.  2 separate LTC pools are doing very poorly and now Bitminter....

Ordered 2  1x-16x powered risers in the eve on May 30th.  Got them today (June 5th).  Paid with BTC, and didn't get a confirmation email so I sent off a note and they quickly got back to me saying everything was all set and they would ship out in the AM.  Haven't hooked up the cables yet but they look nice in the static bags.

/edit  They shipped from outside Vancouver, Canada and delivered to Utah, USA.
/edit2 Hooked up and hashing fine for 5 days straight.

Ship the small ones, then the biggies.  By the time the biggies ship (and dif goes up exponentially) the biggies put out the same profits as a 7950 today, and the small ones become even less valuable.  (And all us GPU users sell cards en mass or switch to LTC).