hmm I didn't see this payout come through. I'm sure I had shares on that block.

Node is seeing a few orphans, will be working on reducing those.

Yeah that's because the server is in Australia. Not many peers to choose from nearby.

In other (more on topic) news, we hit another block! 

Well documented? Do you have a cited source for that statement. It's well documented that MS have an opt out for the customer experience on all of their products.
They are one of the safest companies to use in regards to your privacy if you are comparing them to Apple and Google.

Guys, I have low getblock latency, Matt's relay, plenty of bitcoind peers and a handful of p2pool peers yet I'm seeing almost 50% orphan shares. What could be the issue?

Awesome, see I wasn't that far off after all. Go ckpool!

ah yeah that's true. it just feels like 7 in 24 hours haha

What's that now 7 blocks in 24 hours?

Thanks mate, will have a play through the week.

Wow, i had been jumping between my p2pool node and here but i'm staying here now.

ok so i see that, looks to only work with db version. I wondered if it could be a way of seeing proxy stats. i'm guessing standalone proxy (-A -p) you wont get any stats other than the logs. i might have a go at getting the db set up.

Edit: ohhh of course i need to move pool to the web directory lol

Welcome aboard, the node is performing well now. Getblock below 400ms and we have two clean shares. The server is on Microsoft Azure in the brand new datacentres they've just made available.
I'm still merge mining namecoin but I doubt that will mean anything.

I'll post here before doing any maintenance and will look at adding a second load balanced node for guaranteed uptime. It's hosted on some free credit that I have though so trying to keep it below that and hence keep the node fee free.

Please do not hesitate to post here if you need anything.

Out of interest if you are mining here could you post a quick trace route?

ok so firstly, my linux skills are not as good as my windows skills, i've compiled ckpool and bitcoind. i am trying to set up the web interface, i point apache to the http directory but get forbidden. apache works with default site so config is good. i have chmod 755 on both http and pool directories.

What am i missing?

Node back online on higher spec server.

I actually have just over 1th/s but have had it on kanos pool. The share diff on p2pool has been so high, a victim of its own success.
I'll point my hashing back at the node later today again.
Namecoin is the only coin worth merging, the rest are so dead in the water its not worth even running them. I used to mine devcoin and ixcoin as well.
I run the node because I am interested in p2pool and believe in it. I also run the bitcoin node to keep the network up especially in Australia.
If I ever hit a namecoin block then I wil consider keeping it to pay for pool maintenance but honestly I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

Ok cool, well it'll be back up in the next hour then i'll point my miners back at it.

Node offline due to too many bad blocks. moving to higher spec server.

Personally I buy my hardware cheap and run it on cheap power. For me I have ROI'd on 2 S1's and now have 2 S3's. I should ROI on those in about 2-3 months.

Mining can work but you need free or next to free power and you need to buy hardware 2nd hand from miners who have given up, spent to much and desperate to get rid or have mined something and ok with selling at a loss.

New hardware is a mugs game, i don't know how anyone could ROI on new hardware costs.

Since this is basically complete in functionality, could I put in a feature request for that?