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June 06, 2011, 05:54:34 AM |
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I don't think it costs hundreds to rent a GPU from Amazon per day, but OK....
A VPS, or virtual private server, is not a "metal" box. It won't have a GPU as needed for mining, and if it did, you won't be able to access or monopolize it. So there's the first problem - no GPU, no highspeed mining.
Here's some information on (ab)using Rackspace -
The cheapest cloud server is 0.015 per day to operate. You can monopolize the CPU, but clients with higher RAM get higher priority. For 0.015, you get 256M of RAM, Fedora/Arch/CentOS or Ubuntu and the lowest priority. You also won't be able to compile much in 256M of RAM, but if you build the binaries off-site, they'll run without issue.
On the 4 core processor I was able to test this on, I could get approximately 8MHs. An overtime average could definitely show a significantly lower rate, but that's what I got over a day.
At roughly $10 per month per server and using 12 servers, you could get close to ~100MHs for $120USD.
That would probably amount to possibly up-to $131 USD at the current exchange and complexity. You would also most definitely want to be in a pool. The solution is nearly instantly scalable - cloud servers come up in less than a minute and they support images.
.... so... you get $10 "free" dollars per month with no operational sway....
.... and provided Rackspace doesn't send you a "WTFBBQ are you doing?! Stop!" letter.
.... but if you were really bored, you could most definitely get "pennies from heaven" with a short-term investment of a thousand machines and about a day or two of your own time.
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