Hi all,
I'm reaching out to the community to see whether there would be any interest in a simple, reliable, secure and cheap co-location service for crytocurrency mining hardware.
We all know that home mining is difficult; the growing demand for electricity that ASIC / GPU miners require, the fan noise, and the heat, especially considering the soaring summer temperatures at the moment. What I'm proposing is a simple service that allows home miners (or anyone else for that matter) to move their hardware to a data centre that specialises in handling crytocurrency mining hardware. Not only does it take away the stress of keeping your equipment cool and gives you some relief from the fan noises, the best part is that is offers cheaper electricity than what you're be paying at home.
How cheap? Well that's what is just being finalised, but to give you a rough guide, compared to where I'm based in the UK, the electricity and maintence costs are looking promising enough to be
at least 50% cheaper. For me, it's is a game changer in terms of getting quicker returns, making more profit (that's what it's mostly about right?) and enabling me to quickly increase my own capacity which I was limited on before. It all comes down to how much interest there is - the more miners on board, the cheaper the rates get, hence this preliminary shout-out to see who might be interested.
Who am I and how will you know that I won't steal your miners? I've been a long-time lurker on the forums and a home miner for many years. I'm a tech enthusiast who has been in IT my whole life and I love everything about the aspect of mining. It's only this year that I've finally had to bite the bullet and look to have my own hardware hosted somewhere more sensible than my own garage or convervatory. The problem was, I found that there was no one offering a clear service at a reasonable cost this side of the pond (UK / Europe). No one was interested in the small fish, only the big ones.
I've been on the receiving end of a scam myself on this very forum, so I know how important it is to have security and reassurance that your investment isn't going to be ripped away from you unfairly. This is why I'm bringing this service to the table with the backing of a very reputatable UK web hosting company who have many years of experience, thousands of customers, and an excellent customer service rating. They already have established contacts with a data centre in Iceland, so there's a reliable infrastructure in place, and experience shipping hardware around. Just to clarify, you'd be dealing directly with them. I'd be happy to give much more information for credibility once this has advanced to the next step. My involvement here for now is to literally just to explain the offer on the table and count numbers.
The benefits are:
- Cheap electricity
- Secure data centre hosting
- 99% uptime
- No setup fees
- No contract ties
- No minimum quatity requirement
- Use your own hardware and scale up as you wish
- Feel better about yourself using 100% renewable energy
The service would be as simple as:
- You place an order online and pay with the method of your choosing.
- You send your hardware either directly to the data centre in Iceland or it can be collected and shipped for you.
- You get your hardware setup within 24 hours of it arriving (time is money after all).
- You control your own hardware with VPN access and monitoring.
- When you've had enough, you get your hardware shipped back to you, no catches.
If you are interested, I'd appreciate you would reply here or drop me a PM about the equipment you've got so some numbers can be crunched.
Thanks!
Griff
