Dumbo
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August 22, 2013, 11:29:46 PM |
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Linode kicked me out  |
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mechs (OP)
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August 22, 2013, 11:39:41 PM |
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Linode kicked me out The best bet may be a less popular company since they probably kick people off when other users complain their droplets slow. Less users means less likely for someone to complain. |
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Dumbo
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August 22, 2013, 11:49:37 PM |
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There are 100s of us here ...we can just pool together and rent out some small VPS companies.
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mechs (OP)
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August 23, 2013, 03:13:33 AM |
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There are 100s of us here ...we can just pool together and rent out some small VPS companies.
Only two choices - keep signing up for VPS and milking them until account frozen or pay up for a dedicated server. THe first method more time-consuming but also more profitable. Dedicated servers expensive. |
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Tamis
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August 23, 2013, 09:22:10 AM
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There are 100s of us here ...we can just pool together and rent out some small VPS companies.
Only two choices - keep signing up for VPS and milking them until account frozen or pay up for a dedicated server. THe first method more time-consuming but also more profitable. Dedicated servers expensive. You can't milk VPS, they will cut you almost instantly ! Sometimes I could not even finish downloading the blockchain and was already suspended... You can buy a server off ebay for example. There are cheap ones but you need to choose well and have space for them as they are known to be noisy and generate heat. |
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balanghai
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August 23, 2013, 09:32:05 AM |
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anyone offering their home servers for contracts?  |
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Lauda
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August 23, 2013, 09:53:27 AM |
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anyone offering their home servers for contracts? I can offer a Pentium IV  |
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" 😼 Bitcoin Core ( onion) |
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hanzac
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August 23, 2013, 10:08:41 AM |
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Why the GetWork protocol not implemented in XPM? Is it hard to achieve?
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FoldingTime
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August 23, 2013, 11:22:45 AM |
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There are 100s of us here ...we can just pool together and rent out some small VPS companies.
I have been looking into bulk buying dedicated servers, however, to get the full discount you need to hire them for a full 1 year  Without the full discount I can get a Xeon E3-1230v2 (4 core @ 3.3GHz - turbo at 3.7GHz) , 16GB for $80 each per month if we bulk buy. If you can keep it a full 1 year then get a 10% rebate at the end. I have one of these running at the moment and get between 1.1 and 1.2 chains per day. With the current difficulty I put this down as breakeven at best so not really worth the investment. Anyone got anything cheaper or more cost effective? |
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Tamis
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August 23, 2013, 01:04:39 PM |
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Anyone got anything cheaper or more cost effective?
Of course, but no one will tell you  I will though, at this price you are better taking EC2 spot instances ! |
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paulthetafy
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August 23, 2013, 01:10:32 PM |
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Anyone got anything cheaper or more cost effective?
Of course, but no one will tell you I will though, at this price you are better taking EC2 spot instances ! Spot prices are good, but even the cheapest is not profitable now. Expect about a break even at best. |
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Tamis
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August 23, 2013, 02:19:26 PM
Last edit: August 23, 2013, 02:42:09 PM by Tamis |
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Spot prices are good, but even the cheapest is not profitable now. Expect about a break even at best.
True, but it's still cheaper than the server he's renting ! Now the fact is that difficulty has stabilized so people keep on mining. The horrible ypool gets 20% of the blocks, where are mining the others for profit ? Are they all desktop computers or are we missing the right vps providers ? I've been wondering about that quite a lot lately... |
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paulthetafy
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August 23, 2013, 02:34:31 PM |
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Spot prices are good, but even the cheapest is not profitable now. Expect about a break even at best.
True, but it's still cheaper than the server he's renting ! Now the fact is that difficulty has stabilized so people keep on mining. The horrible ypool get 20% of the blocks, where are mining the others with profit ? Are they all desktop computers or are we missing the right vps providers ? I've been wondering about that quite a lot lately... There's a fair number of normal home users who have a handful of desktops, then there are a few people with massive server farms, either through work or that they own themselves (think 100-1000 machines). I think that makes up the lions share. Some people bought VPS's on monthly plans and are still running them (probably already paid for), but dont know how profitable they are anymore. |
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jungle_dave
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August 28, 2013, 10:31:00 PM |
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Compliments on the great concept behind Primecoin!! It must be very popular now, its taking 2 hours and counting to sync Hope there are a few coins left for me to mine. |
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mechs (OP)
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August 29, 2013, 05:15:03 AM |
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Compliments on the great concept behind Primecoin!! It must be very popular now, its taking 2 hours and counting to sync Hope there are a few coins left for me to mine. We still in the early innings with primecoin, no worries there! |
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Tamis
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August 30, 2013, 03:29:58 PM |
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Compliments on the great concept behind Primecoin!! It must be very popular now, its taking 2 hours and counting to sync Hope there are a few coins left for me to mine. We still in the early innings with primecoin, no worries there! The coins are here alright, but getting them is a hell of a lot harder than it was a month ago ! |
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Fuzzy
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August 30, 2013, 09:36:44 PM |
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How many XMP would a stock i7-2600k mine in a day at today's difficulty?
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rwessels
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August 30, 2013, 09:41:56 PM |
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Well I have 176 cores going right now and am only finding a few blocks a day.
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