Any good guides on starting a mining pool

[jhansen858]

I have been looking into it mostly for fun.  Anyone know how to do it?  Tipping anyone who can get me there.

[Moonchopper]

Are you looking to do an automated mining pool where it distributes BTC automatically?

I have set up a personal mining pool for myself and my friends (I believe it should be working - just clarifying some questions before I have them switch over) using p2pool and cgminer. However, funds will be distributed manually, since it seems it would just be easier for me to do that manually.

[jhansen858]

Are you looking to do an automated mining pool where it distributes BTC automatically?

I have set up a personal mining pool for myself and my friends (I believe it should be working - just clarifying some questions before I have them switch over) using p2pool and cgminer. However, funds will be distributed manually, since it seems it would just be easier for me to do that manually.

Just basically trying to get a personal pool working at the moment.  If I get ambitious some day I might set it up to be more public, ie friends and friends of friends. 

[zero-asic]

I wrote some install scripts for an eloipool private pool. Check out the thread in my sig.