need hosting advice

[jetskimadness]

Hey guys I'm looking at jumping into the mining world, but live in cali with our super expensive tiered electricity rates. So I am looking to have my miners hosted somewhere, need advice on which companies are not scams. So far I have looked into Oregon mines, colohub and megabigpower. if anyone can give me any insight  on who they use it would be much appreciated.

[unholycactus]

It's already hard enough to break even mining yourself with a low electricity cost.
It's nearly impossible to do it if you have to pay for hosting.

I don't think you'll hear about a hosting success here.

[vh]

Hey guys I'm looking at jumping into the mining world, but live in cali with our super expensive tiered electricity rates. So I am looking to have my miners hosted somewhere, need advice on which companies are not scams. So far I have looked into Oregon mines, colohub and megabigpower. if anyone can give me any insight  on who they use it would be much appreciated.

Visit here for a thorough list: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622998.0.
With each provider is a Feedback quick-link for some details on user experiences with that provider.

[olushakes]

I aslo want to add that when you eventually find, you should be very analytical about the costs and benefits that will accrue from such endeavour. Even at this time, its generally believed that the cost of mining out weight the benefit that will be coming in which makes it not not worthwhile except going large scale which is very capital consuming that might be too much for an individual to be able to afford.

[LightZ]

I personally have a A2 hosted in Jeffcolo have been there since sep. 2016 and now I preordered 2 L3+ to him

Jeff's bitcointalk username is sunbreak
You can also find him on the thread posted above

[chixka000]

I really dont know you we could trust chinese but probably they have a massive mining scheme in their bitmain probably was the largest if i am not mistakem tho finding a good host is really hard but probably i would suggest from china(you cheap)

[elokk]

I would stay away from Oregon Mines. Their service is subpar, found cheaper pricing elsewhere, and equipment I had hosted there and later relocated was filthy

[LightZ]

I would stay away from Oregon Mines. Their service is subpar, found cheaper pricing elsewhere, and equipment I had hosted there and later relocated was filthy

Had a A6 hosted with them and had problems almost every 2 week

[elokk]

I would stay away from Oregon Mines. Their service is subpar, found cheaper pricing elsewhere, and equipment I had hosted there and later relocated was filthy

Had a A6 hosted with them and had problems almost every 2 week

I detailed my experience in the Oregon Mines thread which is probably self moderated by those guys so I will quote here:

Time to revive this thread

Early this year I purchased some used miners/power supplies already hosted at Oregon Mines and decided to keep them there.

After a few months of service I decided it would be best to relocate this equipment to a different hosting facility that I was using for my other mining gear. The pricing at Oregon Mines was not as competitive but I was willing to pay more if the service was superior.

Unfortunately the service was far from good.  In the first couple of months there were a few small mishaps that annoyed me but I was not going to get too upset over. Then I started having an Antminer s9 dropping offline over and over again. I noticed it was overheating from a failing fan after looking at BMMiner status page. I sent several emails asking for the issue to be looked into but never received a response. This is when I knew I had to relocate otherwise I would start losing valuable equipment.

Relocating my equipment halfway across the country was not cheap. Plus, Oregon Mines charged an extra $20 per miner handling fee (which was suppose to include cleaning). They waited several days until late afternoon on a Friday to ship out which meant the equipment would be sitting idle an extra day (Sunday). I figured that was the final mishap I would have to deal with until the equipment showed up at the new hosting facility. The power supplies were so dirty that the new clean facility could not use them. This cost me even more money now that I had to order more power supplies to replace the dirty ones.

Oregon Mines service was poor, facility cleanliness is in question, and at the end of the day they cost me a lot of extra money. Lesson learned, do not make the same mistake I made.