[1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff]

[ZodiacDragon84]

With the address, I bequeath unto you some spare .80 BTC...more to follow each week.

[Kain]

I have no backup pools, but I feel safe knowing the swap will be quick as possible.

[P4man]

Chipped in. And Ill regularly abuse the secret address until you have a more permanent donation method.

BTW, when do you plan to switch? Might be good to give an estimated time if you can.

[DrHaribo]

With the address, I bequeath unto you some spare .80 BTC...more to follow each week.

Chipped in. And Ill regularly abuse the secret address until you have a more permanent donation method.

Thank you kindly, sirs.

BTW, when do you plan to switch? Might be good to give an estimated time if you can.

I wasn't sure if I might make it tonight. But it's getting rather late now. I want to test things out a bit before making the actual switch. I also don't want to switch just before going to bed in case something goes wrong.

So most likely tomorrow evening, european time.

I have no backup pools, but I feel safe knowing the swap will be quick as possible.

Doing kind of a "practice move" right now. If it works ok then the actual move should be as fast as possible.

[SgtMoth]

donation sent

[DrHaribo]

donation sent

Much appreciated, sir.

[DrHaribo]

Finally the end of that long block.

You can see the BIP-16 vote here: http://blockchain.info/tx-index/14971049/d32f30a02a465570db1a4a99743045f8bdad119e417963dbc72a28732d473481

The "/P2SH/" is the vote. Also, our blocks' coinbases start with "BitMinter" to show where they were made. The unreadable garbage is the extranonce and data for merged mining.

[DrHaribo]

Site going down for server switch. Will be back ASAP.

[DrHaribo]

Site going down for server switch. Will be back ASAP.

Up again. Let me know if you have any problems.

[P4man]

Wow. That was fast lol.
Very smooth so far!

[Turbor]

Let the good times rock...

[DrHaribo]

Server move took 11 minutes. I was hoping just 5-10 min, but not too bad.

Unfortunately there was one problem. During the switch an NMC payment was executed an extra time. A few users now have a negative balance of NMC. You can look up every payment on blockexplorer from your transaction history on BitMinter. If you have a negative balance you will find two payments with the same amount but in different blocks on blockexplorer. Normally the pool should not pay out money you don't have, but you can consider this an advance. It will correct itself after a couple more NMC blocks are confirmed and your balance will be positive again. Let me know if this situation makes you unhappy.

When I switched over I set up a tunnel from the old server to the new, so you can mine even if you use the wrong IP address. I'll take this down later. Currently almost 500 connections going through it. Weird how long new DNS data takes to spread even with 5 minutes TTL. My ISP at home was even serving out the old one after TTL went to zero. TTL went back up to 5 minutes, and still the old IP. DNS is not supposed to work like that! Oh well..

A relief to see everything running smoothly.

[P4man]

Dont we have to flush our dns caches? Whats the new IP address, just to be sure

[DrHaribo]

Dont we have to flush our dns caches? Whats the new IP address, just to be sure

This is the new server:

Code:

> host bitminter.com
bitminter.com has address 176.9.104.178

You shouldn't have to flush anything. The TTL (time-to-live) value of 5 minutes should make the cache flush this IP address after it has been stored a maximum of 5 minutes. I was a bit surprised to see this not work properly at home though, took probably 15-20 minutes before I could see the new IP. At the office it worked fine, though.

[Turbor]

Code:

Ping wird ausgeführt für 176.9.104.178 mit 32 Bytes Daten:
Antwort von 176.9.104.178: Bytes=32 Zeit=42ms TTL=49
Antwort von 176.9.104.178: Bytes=32 Zeit=39ms TTL=49
Antwort von 176.9.104.178: Bytes=32 Zeit=42ms TTL=49
Antwort von 176.9.104.178: Bytes=32 Zeit=45ms TTL=49

Ping-Statistik für 176.9.104.178:
    Pakete: Gesendet = 4, Empfangen = 4, Verloren = 0
    (0% Verlust),
Ca. Zeitangaben in Millisek.:
    Minimum = 39ms, Maximum = 45ms, Mittelwert = 42ms

C:\Program Files\NetBalancer>

Was 150ms before and my internet is not that fast.

[DrHaribo]

Was 150ms before and my internet is not that fast.

We have moved from American to German server. In the long run I would like to have multiple servers and probably spread out across the world. But I don't think this should have a big impact. If your round-trip-time went up by 100 ms, that would be 50 ms longer delay one way. I guess that means if you are American you may now get long poll messages 0.05 seconds later. Except the server is much faster, so it's probably faster than before, also for Americans.

[P4man]

Almost 2000 shares this shift.
Rejected    0 (0.00%)    

[jake262144]

So we're at Hetzner now, Doc? Nice, just 8 hops away.
Round trip time of 62 ms is nothing to be scoffed at.
Stales are looking quite promising as well.

Congrats on the expedient and painless migration.

[P4man]

Round trip time of 62 ms is nothing to be scoffed at.

Im not even sure what scoffing means, but I scoff at it:

Code:

PING bitminter.com (176.9.104.178) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from static.178.104.9.176.clients.your-server.de (176.9.104.178): icmp_req=1 ttl=51 time=31.5 ms
64 bytes from static.178.104.9.176.clients.your-server.de (176.9.104.178): icmp_req=2 ttl=51 time=27.5 ms
64 bytes from static.178.104.9.176.clients.your-server.de (176.9.104.178): icmp_req=3 ttl=51 time=27.0 ms
64 bytes from static.178.104.9.176.clients.your-server.de (176.9.104.178): icmp_req=4 ttl=51 time=25.8 ms
64 bytes from static.178.104.9.176.clients.your-server.de (176.9.104.178): icmp_req=5 ttl=51 time=27.3 ms
64 bytes from static.178.104.9.176.clients.your-server.de (176.9.104.178): icmp_req=6 ttl=51 time=27.4 ms
64 bytes from static.178.104.9.176.clients.your-server.de (176.9.104.178): icmp_req=7 ttl=51 time=26.5 ms
^C
--- bitminter.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6008ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 25.879/27.613/31.500/1.679 ms

As for stales, this makes me happy:

[DrHaribo]

P4man, nice numbers!

I'm still hoping pool-wide rejects will go down. It might help when miners connect directly to the new server instead of going through the old one. Since the switch, we've gone from 493 connections down to 433 through the tunnel from old to new server. Going down slowly. It may be that some miners need to be restarted to force them the resolve the hostname again and get the correct server.

So we're at Hetzner now, Doc? Nice, just 8 hops away.
Round trip time of 62 ms is nothing to be scoffed at.
Stales are looking quite promising as well.

Yep, at Hetzner. They have some very nice prices. Now we just have to get the hash rate up. The new server is idling too much.

Congrats on the expedient and painless migration.

Thanks, it was a big relief!