[ANN][POOL] Alpereum - Professional Ether Pool [0% FEE] [VARDIFF]

[sammybtc]

is that normal the stats are not working anymore?

[AlainC]

is that normal the stats are not working anymore?

Seems all pools are down . Socket closed by servers. Eu asia pool...
Seems just now useast back...
Edit: in fact all down.
EDIT2: incident ("Socket was closed remotely (by pool)", no share accepted)  from my point of view (logs) started at 13:37 GMT (2017/06/10) and ended at 16:10 GMT. can someone else confirm?

[forestbear97]

is that normal the stats are not working anymore?

Seems all pools are down . Socket closed by servers. Eu asia pool...
Seems just now useast back...
Edit: in fact all down.
EDIT2: incident ("Socket was closed remotely (by pool)", no share accepted)  from my point of view (logs) started at 13:37 GMT (2017/06/10) and ended at 16:10 GMT. can someone else confirm?

Response from Zach. Sounds like they are not paying out for the down time. Only 5 Blocks found in last 24 hours.

"Hello,

The pool experienced an outage last night into the morning for several hours (Zurich Time). The outage was network related in the data center hosting our main database. The issue has been fixed and we are closely monitoring the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this may of caused.

Regards,
The Alpereum Team"



Every thread mentioning these guys is somewhat negative.

Edit:

This too
https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/pools/alpereum/#/reviews

Edit2:

Also interesting how this "data center outage" happens at the same time they implement a pool fee of .2% and remove vardiff while doing some redirecting
"We’ve removed VARDIFF altogether, and the 4000 ports that worked on VARDIFF will now redirect your miner automatically to port 3002."

[AlainC]

supervision seems against out.
pool accept shares but I see nothing since 1h
my payout since friday 2:00GMT (Edit: I put a mixed case address, corrected later, so I add both to be exact), 58h after, is 0.071 while it should be 0.12 at 85MH/S
it was 0.056 yesterday evening at 22:00GMT after 42h instead of 0.0875... estimated 15 hours lost.
waiting for .2 payout... hope just it won't last a week instead of 2.5days.
EDIT: just seing supervision back at 0.081 after 58h (instead of 0.12), estimated 19hours lost
 

I know my rig who with many watchdogs and alarms is not out for more than 15, and not without warnings. I see on worker console that my miner was out, at time it was working hard...
started friday 2:11 (GMT)
saturday
01:43-5:01 OUT with few minutes working at 02:30 and 03:30-03:42  (3:18 out)
10:18-16:13 OUT (5:55 out)
sunday
05:47-06:51 OUT (1:04 out)
13:08-13:59 OUT (0:51 out)

total out : 8h
maybe I lost also 6h when starting (it's the rule), because first block mined was 6 hours after I moved (we are paid only after a block is mined)

except saturday at 13:37-16:10 (2:27 off) there was no sign of dysfunction.
If I was paranoid I would say my shares were taken for free, but I estimate they just screwed up something. will they repair?



EDIT: 13:52 GMT, supervision is out. me too. I abandon my earnings.

[opusdigitus]

This is my first time mining ETH. I am almost to the minimum payout threshold. Now all the stats are down and no updates from the admins... Is this the norm for this pool?

[Harmonikas]

I just joined forum to support @AlainC findings. Same here bro. Alpereum, you call yourself professional ehter pool, but things last two days don't show that. Every production need backup servers and even backup need backup in situation like this. Five days with you and I see why some people just quit mining when they start with wrong pool. Earnings are not great at all, just from my test from other pools i got 0,04-0,05 every day, here i have 0,03 if pool don't have issues.

Like AlainC said, maybe loosing 0.12 (my case) that i have with them is good thing, or I can say mining life lesson.

[opusdigitus]

Support responded to me and said all shares were counted during the time the stats were not showing up on the web site. Purely a web site problem. Seems to be working for me again.

[AlainC]

Usually I trust support, and I was very enthusiastic on this swiss  pool from hearsay (I was ther more for strategic than 1% saving... 2h outage a week is above 1%).
However my rig is stable (on nanopool it is like a clock, I have a HW watchdog, systemd watchdog, ssmtp alerts, automatic bios downgrade on incorrect shares, ) at 85MH/s (3 RX480 OC at 27.5-28.5-29.5 resp)
as produce 0.05 per day,
and since friday 4:11 CESTDST up to today 14:35 I have 0.07548217207423369 +0.00636871465015225
this is 58hours and 0.081 is for 39 hours

for example during the GMT 01:43-5:01 "invisibility of my rig" I produced 500 shares that were accepted, but I don't see it on the balance.
Maybe it is an illusion, but I cannot take the risk. My rig is stable like rock on nanopool since I moved.

Maybe I'll be back when it works, to take my earnings.

[forestbear97]

I won't be back. I've read too many posts and reviews from guys who have had two identical rigs, one pointed at Alp, and one to another pool. Some do it for days, some weeks, some months. Time and time again I read that their earnings on alp were less and by a considerable margin. Clearly this pool has resisted using anything other than proportional mining, which does not reward loyal users but rather allows for pool hopping. Combine that with these blackouts, and a lack of empathy from the team to the point they couldn't even put a note up on their main page when these issues happened this weekend. I'm out sorry.

It's just not worth the risk now that ETH is worth $350.

[Harmonikas]

Yep,

We can see now: "Last block: 9 hours ago" and they lost about 1000 miners in last 48h and I will add that, you are not paid before new block, they can always set that new block will come in next 24h, clean up users earnings, and close their site. Pools like ethermine update your earnings every hour, this "professional" pool just don't care to provide answer and information to end users when something is wrong with their network/system.

Hope to see more people writing here, to assure that other people just leave from that site.

[opusdigitus]

It is happening again with the stats. Once I hit 0.2 I'm out. This pool sucks.

[kodiak1120]

I have like .18 ETH pending...  If I switch pools, will that ever be paid?

[Harmonikas]

Hi kodiak1120,

Their support maybe will answer to you with "ok", we will pay, (good luck with that, didn't answer to my ticket). Best is if you can wait for 0.02 and then move to other stable pools.

[kodiak1120]

Thanks... I just hate to waste the hashing power if I never get paid.   I guess I don't have much choice.

[Harmonikas]

Right now

https://s1.postimg.org/6ilgm56tr/alperum.png

This is moving from pro to dead pool.

EDIT: 500 miners left today.

[fan_speed]

Jumped ship to Nanopool.

Took almost a week to get .1 on Alp. Already received first payout on Nanopool in less than 24 hours.

Glad this outage occurred and opened my eyes or else I'd still be with Alp.

[forestbear97]

Last 50 blocks luck is at 83%.....brutal.

[AlainC]

gave then a chance yesterday.
got 0.05 on nanopool the day before.
run at 85MH/s for 12 hours.
0.007 added to balance
no block mined for 8 hours, but many before.
pool down (in fact he says my ris was down, but they were down) according to "worker count" from GMT 20:30 to 21:59, moved automatically to nanopool. but only from 21:30-21-50

Hard to imagine the technical problem explaining the gap in profitability.

EDIT: I found the trick.
15 minute before the last bloc was mined GMT 20:45 those B DECLARED ME officially offline, so I was not there for the block.
the problem is that I only moved to nanoppol after 1 hours at 21:20-30 GMT

anyway since I have seen nothing down until 21:20-30,
it is not to exclude the "off" period was not accidental but retroactive.
Is there a swiss citizen to call for inquiry?

[kodiak1120]

I switched back to Alpereum to try to get from 0.18 to 0.2 for a payout, but now the pool is down again.  I doubt I'll ever see that 0.18 they owe me.  I'm done with this pool.  It was fine up until a few months ago, but now it sucks. 

[AlainC]

They say they will move to 0.05 payment...
reducing the risk.

Maybe they are honest but they just screwed up, and try to repair. But they cannot invent money they did not earn.
I wish them good luck if they are sincere, but gaining confidence back will be hard.