How many GPUs are you running? If you have a significant number, you might just want to set up your own private pool.
Yes pretty much this, What are the alternatives ? How easy it is ?
Not that I have that many, but some are at other location and currently I "logmein" into them to survey.
This is also important because if we want more people to go solo, say on two GPU, It's too much of a feat to have them wait ~125 day to see if it work.