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[slush]

Has anyone ever tried making Amazon EC2 instances that mine BitCoin/LiteCoin/NameCoin (Via virtual GPU or raw CPU mining)?

Yes

If so, was it profitable?

No :-)

[PuertoLibre]

Has anyone ever tried making Amazon EC2 instances that mine BitCoin/LiteCoin/NameCoin (Via virtual GPU or raw CPU mining)?

Yes

If so, was it profitable?

No :-)

Thanks,

By the way, Stratum3 seems to have gone down just a minute ago.

Number 2 is still alive.

[Camello_AR]

Has anyone ever tried making Amazon EC2 instances that mine BitCoin/LiteCoin/NameCoin (Via virtual GPU or raw CPU mining)?

Yes

If so, was it profitable?

No :-)

Thanks,

By the way, Stratum3 seems to have gone down just a minute ago.

Number 2 is still alive.

appears to  be recovered now (as my miner no reports troubles with mining proxy now and a minutes ago yes)

[Synapse_On_Slush]

Well good news from here; I rebooted and my hashrate went back up from the 575 before to my original 614 Happy days. No idea what the problem was but the good ol' restart did the trick

[tiktoc]

puetrolibre: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=169377.0

Dont know if its worth it though lol.


slush: Ruffly what you have now i guess

                          Load Bal                Load Bal                       Load Bal
_______________|___      ________|__________     ______|________________
sm sm sm sm sm sm sm     sm sm sm sm sm sm sm     sm sm sm sm sm sm sm sm
               |                              |                                                   |
               |------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-logs server
               |                              |                                                   |
               |------------------database -------------------bitcoind--------|


Find the smallest instance type you need for your stratum mining ami image to run on smoothly under moderate load(cost benefit for number of instances).

write the logs and variable stuff to another permanent instance.

You can spread the sm instances over different available zones.

Have some normal sm instances, then use spot instances, lot cheaper (can be terminated any time they go over your max price though so have to keep more of a eye on it).

Set the max price on the spot instances slightly higher then the current price so you have a bit of leeway till they get terminated.

If you can use small its $151.2 month for 30 spot instances or med is $187.2 for 20 a month if prices stay steady.

You could also run a few instances off the load balancers and give the ips to the bigger miners.

http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1636185810492479

[Gimpeline]

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here?
I'm using the mining proxy.

For some reason I cant seem to get any shares

[digital]

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here?
I'm using the mining proxy.

For some reason I cant seem to get any shares

I'm not too familiar with the cuda miner, but how long have you waited?  At 30 mhash you might not get any shares for several minutes.

Is your proxy showing any activity?  Errors in the proxy?

[Gimpeline]

It was running for around an hour. What the proxy says:


2013-04-18 19:18:28,233 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 77 for
prevhash 2368d700, clean_jobs=False
2013-04-18 19:18:30,467 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:34,500 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:38,530 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:42,578 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:46,625 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:50,671 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:54,703 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:58,733 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:02,842 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:06,890 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:10,921 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:14,967 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:27,608 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 78 for
prevhash 2368d700, clean_jobs=False
2013-04-18 19:19:31,640 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:35,671 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:39,717 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:43,765 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:47,858 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:51,937 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:58,655 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:20:02,687 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:20:06,733 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work


Edit When I try the default miner it works fine, but I don't have a ati card. I have a Nvida Geforce 9800 GTX

[thehairymob]

Thanks Slushy for getting us back up

[digital]

It was running for around an hour. What the proxy says:


2013-04-18 19:18:28,233 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 77 for
prevhash 2368d700, clean_jobs=False
2013-04-18 19:18:30,467 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:34,500 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:38,530 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:42,578 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:46,625 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:50,671 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:54,703 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:58,733 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:02,842 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:06,890 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:10,921 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:14,967 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:27,608 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 78 for
prevhash 2368d700, clean_jobs=False
2013-04-18 19:19:31,640 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:35,671 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim



Edit When I try the default miner it works fine, but I don't have a ati card. I have a Nvida Geforce 9800 GTX

Im using the same version of Guiminer and I don't need to use the proxy with it.  I'm not sure if that applies only to opencl or if that's with all miners, but you can try changing the server to slush's pool with the same username and password and see if that works any better.

Like I said, that's how I"m using it, and it works fine with stratum without the proxy.  But I am on OpenCl too...

[nybbler905]

It was running for around an hour. What the proxy says:


2013-04-18 19:18:28,233 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 77 for
prevhash 2368d700, clean_jobs=False
2013-04-18 19:18:30,467 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:34,500 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:38,530 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:42,578 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:46,625 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:50,671 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:54,703 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:18:58,733 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:02,842 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:06,890 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:10,921 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:14,967 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:27,608 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 78 for
prevhash 2368d700, clean_jobs=False
2013-04-18 19:19:31,640 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:35,671 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:39,717 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:43,765 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:47,858 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:51,937 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:19:58,655 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:20:02,687 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work
2013-04-18 19:20:06,733 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_authorized # Worker 'Gim
peline.worker1' asks for new work


Edit When I try the default miner it works fine, but I don't have a ati card. I have a Nvida Geforce 9800 GTX

Hate to say it, it's running fine....
the proxy needs to have the wording better this line is confirmation of job 78 NOT having a hash in it

2013-04-18 19:19:27,608 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 78 for
prevhash 2368d700, clean_jobs=False

Just takes time and patience and all of us to count our blessings that Slush's is back up for us to mine on.

[digital]

Just takes time and patience and all of us to count our blessings that Slush's is back up for us to mine on.

Uhhhmmmm....



Slush is up, im mining away just fine.  Rocking shares, gettin paid, etc.

[lightenup]

hm we have 30% lower hash rates compared to before the DDOS attack, higher difficulty but 163% pool luck? something must be wrong

[Lanidarc]

Hi thread - just released from newbie-town!  

Many Thanks go to the Slushman for weathering the storm and bringin us back up. I've had to switch back to stratum.bitcoin.cz from stratum3.bitcoin.cz when startum3 went down a couple hours back.

With the pool down about 2.3 TH/s of miners atm, payouts are nice and fat! Especial treat since I just got my second 1.3 GH/s rig online!
boo yah  

[cosurgi]

cosurgi, thanks, I'll google it. Right now I'm designing "final" EC2 architecture so any experience in this area is valuable.

I think I found it:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/14/1851240/why-anonymous-cant-take-down-amazoncom

and I found an older one too:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/04/07/07/1811211/akamai-how-they-fought-recent-ddos-attacks

But I think that going with amazon is a good bet.

EDIT: just remember how bitomat.pl went bankrupt: he kept wallet.dat on EC2 (maybe cloud, or something, I don't remember) and reconfigured something in the servers. After restart the system was "clean". So as usual, keep backups safe

[jerethdaminer]

should i be using any extra flags guys im just using a 7970 and gui miner getting 530-550 mhash

[digital]

should i be using any extra flags guys im just using a 7970 and gui miner getting 530-550 mhash

-v -f1 -w128

You can change the 128, to 256, or 64, or some other number.  I've had different numbers work better on different cards.  But that combo of flags always works best for me.

You will definitely get more  hashes

[wetwood]

Is this still valid? or has it been updated?
-o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

[tiktoc]

cosurgi, thanks, I'll google it. Right now I'm designing "final" EC2 architecture so any experience in this area is valuable.

I think I found it:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/14/1851240/why-anonymous-cant-take-down-amazoncom

and I found an older one too:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/04/07/07/1811211/akamai-how-they-fought-recent-ddos-attacks

But I think that going with amazon is a good bet.

EDIT: just remember how bitomat.pl went bankrupt: he kept wallet.dat on EC2 (maybe cloud, or something, I don't remember) and reconfigured something in the servers. After restart the system was "clean". So as usual, keep backups safe

Yeah, from the control panel, the instances are delete on termination by default so it deletes the volume that used to boot the instance.

[nybbler905]

Is this still valid? or has it been updated?
-o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

technically yep, ya can use stratum2.bitcoin.cz or stratum3.bitcoin.cz
and yea, it's been updated to use those 2 new addresses ( still same port )