For historic purposes and not wanting to hide my tracks, the original and edits are still below.
I have two VPS servers here doing fine, but the reviews are horrid and so on. The signup takes a bit longer, which I didnt consider a problem. But in addition this provider has cancellation by phone only and charges a lot more after the first month (60%). Since I don't want to get anyone in some kind of shit:
Can this thread please be closed.If you have anymore questions, feel free to pm me and hopefully I post a better reviewed provider soon.
My apologies in advance for the 4 plp that signed up if it turns out to be a mess, hope you make lots in the meantime. Fortatrust has the option to cancel within 7 days with money back, I suggest you use it if you don't want to try your luck like me.
Our cancellation department is available, Monday through Friday, 930AM to 500PM New York (USA) time via:
1. US Toll Free: +1 855 201 7888
2. Standard: +1 703 466 0078
3. Skype (Skype to fortatrust)
Original and edited post.
--- edit: away atm, but i verified the price after the first month as pointed out later in the thread. Be AWARE! After the 1st month price goes up by 60% and to quarterly. This makes it very interesting if you run it for just a month. After this its still priced well, but the period might be too much to commit too. I will make a proper update when home. My VPS works fine so they certainly deliver, feel free to ask questions.
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Yesterday I cancelled my DigitalOcean droplets since they aren't really profitable anymore and many linodes look somehow throttled on cpu, even when I get max cpu, I was on the lookout for a cheaper and better option.
I found Fortatrust and this seems to be by far the best option, with just 1.8$ per core its lots cheaper then Digital Ocean and will remain profitable for quite a bit of time to come. Even the first Linode at linode which has full priority is also more expensive per core and slower per core. The one disadvantage of Fortatrust is that they aren't instant, so patience is required. But I received my vps in a few hours. My support ticket, since I had accidentally chosen 12.04 instead op 13.04, was also solved within hours. They didn't send me a mail on ticket progress, but I could follow it on the customer portal and this was correct and up to date.
You can scale your VPS server from 1 to 8 cores (starting at 3,99 for 1 core, to 14.45 for 8 cores, which divides to just 1.8 dollars per core, almost 3 times as cheap as DO), the cores are not some virtually defined cores, but real XEON cpu cores. Well feel free to read up more on their site.
Since I figured you would like to know this and I might make some on sharing an referral link:
Create your own VPS at Fortatrust.com: http://accounts.fortatrust.com/aff.php?aff=5456It wont cost you anything to use my referral link and I would very much appreciate it, but feel free to visit
www.fortatrust.com directly and donate to me instead
Underneath a dump of info after running more then a day, averaging at almost 1.7 chains a day.
Stats: {
"blocks" : 114726,
"chainspermin" : 8,
"chainsperday" : 1.07089040,
"currentblocksize" : 1158,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : 9.74066138,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"roundsievepercentage" : 70,
"primespersec" : 1783,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"sievepercentage" : 10,
"sievesize" : 1000000,
"testnet" : false
}
Confirmed Balance: *removed*
Immature Balance: *removed*
Immature TX: *removed*
Connections: 13
Recent:
2013-08-13 08:00:26 primemeter 6432364 prime/h 107735422 test/h 780 5-chains/h 1.069220 chain/d
2013-08-13 08:01:26 primemeter 6480816 prime/h 109257957 test/h 420 5-chains/h 1.083673 chain/d
2013-08-13 08:02:26 primemeter 6350157 prime/h 106376208 test/h 540 5-chains/h 1.057481 chain/d
2013-08-13 08:03:26 primemeter 6033898 prime/h 101422409 test/h 540 5-chains/h 1.003679 chain/d
2013-08-13 08:04:26 primemeter 6419992 prime/h 107923925 test/h 540 5-chains/h 1.070890 chain/d
Averages:
Prime/h: 5777931
Test/h: 96892629
5-Chain/h: 549
Chains/day: 1.67586
-- Update
If you want to use Gigawatts guides to auto install and run the miner (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=261179), then prior to the script I needed to do the following commands (the compilers weren't installed by default):
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ gcc -v
$ make -v
When these are done you can just paste his script (with your own username in it) and when it ran the vps will be mining for you.
