I also run a node on azure, but I have a few suggestions: - you should be running bitcoin as a separate user so in the event of a exploit in bitcoind, you server doesn't get pwned.
- you should be using a upstart/init.d script otherwise bitcoind will not restart if the server reboots (rare, but still happens on azure).
- you can avoid making a symlink for bitcoind's data directory by directly mounting the datadrive on ~/.bitcoin
- bitcoin uses TCP 8333, not udp
- you should use basic_a1 or basic_a0 to save a bit of money
- if you don't want sync to take forever, get a D3 or D4 vm, symlink ~/.bitcoin to /mnt/bitcoin (so bitcoin can sync on ssd). once it's synced, move the the data over to the data disk
here's my upstart script for bitcoind (put in /etc/init/bitcoind.conf) description "bitcoind"
start on filesystem
stop on runlevel [!2345]
oom score -500
respawn
respawn limit 10 60 # 10 times in 60 seconds
script
user=bitcoin
home=/home/$user
cmd=/usr/bin/bitcoind
pidfile=$home/bitcoind.pid
# Don't change anything below here unless you know what you're doing
[[ -e $pidfile && ! -d "/proc/$(cat $pidfile)" ]] && rm $pidfile
[[ -e $pidfile && "$(cat /proc/$(cat $pidfile)/cmdline)" != $cmd* ]] && rm $pidfile
exec start-stop-daemon --start -c $user --chdir $home --pidfile $pidfile --nicelevel 10 -m --startas $cmd
end script
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how many connections does it say you have?
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: blogspam
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: referral link
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Talk about trigger Happy. I recently saw this: So the question is: "When Is A Double Post NOT A Double Post?" Ans: When the first one is locked before the second one is created. Perhaps the mod didn't notice that I locked the first thread before I started the new thread. I hired a contractor in the first thread, he later backed out of the deal so I wanted a new start with a fresh new thread. So quick to judge wrongly, why is this? it has since been moved back |
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: not bitcoin related
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: not bitcoin related
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for the record this is terrible if you want to help the network. peers only make 8 outgoing connections, and they choose randomly from a set of ip/port pairs stored in peers.dat. It's very likely that by the time someone wants to connect to you, your ip and/or port has already changed, so no one would be able to connect. Also, non-standard ports have less priority than standard ports, because they only get used if more than 50 connection attempts from peers.dat has failed.
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You can still mine without wallet enabled (ie. ./configure --disable-wallet), but you won't be able to do so with the built-in RPC interface. You'll need to use a third party pool software. I think p2pool can operate without a wallet.
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-port=<port> Listen for connections on <port> (default: 8333 or testnet: 18333) although you'll have to change it every time you reconnect. |
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how much $ is on the card?
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Old bumps (as in, every bump except the last one) should be deleted because they do nothing but clutter the topic. I deleted the old ones for you this time but you should be doing this yourself.
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Old bumps (as in, every bump except the last one) should be deleted because they do nothing but clutter the topic. I deleted the old ones for you this time but you should be doing this yourself.
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This topic has been moved to Trashcan.
Reason: one topic per site
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Old bumps (as in, every bump except the last one) should be deleted because they do nothing but clutter the topic. I deleted the old ones for you this time but you should be doing this yourself.
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I need $5 paypal. Interested?
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as in, ssh into your server (I seriously hope you have ssh access) type: curl https://mydomain.com/blocknotify.php/?blockhash=00000000000000000dd3c33eaf1a2746ebe841418b98cb15f4a0bb71f3330d5e
echo $?
the echo on the last line is to check the exit status. I'm suspecting that the culprit is your script failing and thus returning -1 to bitcoind when it's executed. |
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sold a few WMZ to me. everything went smooth.
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does it run successfully in in shell? as in, run the command, then do "echo $?" to check the return status.
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Many people do not like to lose the ability to place a ton of referral links.
you do realize that referral links will still be removed even without a new russian moderator, right? |
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