update: trial closedYou probably have heard about Windows Azure. Right. It's been several weeks after major azure buzz and M$ already unleashed ban hammer upon new users, especially the ones that are not going to settle with mini-micro instances and immediately maxed out 20 cores of Server 2012 madness
.
I want to tell you about Yet Another Cloud Provider, named bigblueone.com
Advantages compared to Azure (in terms of Litecoin mining) are: you don't need a credit card; single mobile number for SMS confirmations can be used for multiple accounts.
So all you have to spare is your time for registration process and email creation.
Go to the
bigblueone.com, click "I want cloud", and the rest is pretty straightforward. You'll get 100 CZK balance upon registration, which should last for 48+ hours (they don't immediately shutdown servers, thus allowing to go slightly overquota).
Choose maximum of 16 cores, min RAM and min HDD.
On the next page choose cheapest options: standard storage and disable secure cloud, Next, choose OS and servername.
I have tried both Linux and Windows, it is essentially a matter of taste. However, their RHEL for some reason does not include tar by default, which requires extra step in a shell script (and extra time). CentOS and Debian worked fine out of the box.
Personally, time required to setup Linux is much less for me (AND it's a little bit cheaper, which means longer mining time per account
).
https://i.imgur.com/ZspjGMa.pngOn the Next page fill in registration info, important fields are email and SMS number - you have to confirm both. Within a couple of minutes you should receive confirmation email with access info for Online Management Console, where you newly configured server is just waiting for you to press green button "Confirm server". After that the process takes about 10 minutes.
Use SSH (putty) for Linux and Remote Desktop (mstsc) for Windows servers
47 Kh Profit per account!
processor : 15
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 21
model : 0
model name : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6276
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2300.000
cache size : 2048 KB
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc aperfmperf unfair_spinlock pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm extapic abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw xop fma4
bogomips : 4600.00
[2013-04-13 15:13:08] accepted: 1825/1955 (93.35%), 46.80 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-04-13 15:13:09] thread 7: 57936 hashes, 2.93 khash/s
[2013-04-13 15:13:09] accepted: 1826/1956 (93.35%), 46.82 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-04-13 15:13:24] thread 2: 102540 hashes, 2.92 khash/s
[2013-04-13 15:13:24] accepted: 1827/1957 (93.36%), 46.82 khash/s (yay!!!)
