Creating a new Mining Pool

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Hello,

     I have been reading about mining pools and I have kinda hit a roadblock.  Could someone please direct me to the correct resources. 

For a fun project I want to setup a mining pool site to play with for my friends and I.  This site is not expected to earn any coin but I still want to set one up.


The Goal:

• Create a mining pool site that supports bitcoin and litecoin.
• Users can login and see stats etc.
• Has a payout system, not that I expect we will solve a block. :-)

I have looked at ecoinpool and I can not tell if it is still being updated or not.  The github main list looks like it has not been changed in a year.  I also looked at pushpool and that seems to be dead too.  I do not want to use a P2P option.

• What are the options for pool backend frameworks? 
• Is there a guide to how to setup a pool?

Thanks!
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Anyone?

[CaptainAK]

I have not seen a good end-to-end guide as far as setting up a Non-P2Pool. What I HAVE seen is a lot of people building new pools using a combination of the desired Coin, pushpool, and mmcfe. I looked into it and I may go that way at some point, but I found just setting up a quick P2Pool (pnwminer.com) and inviting friends to join it, is working out fairly well. I did see one person, who wrote a bunch of scripts for eloipool. I believe the link to that post is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=171782.0 Have fun!