so you went with the biggest hash you could find because thats the best right? well due to the lower number of users smaller pools can give you the same amount of return for the same amount of time**. one day you find that the large pool you've been happily hashing at is down for some reason but you didnt set a failover pool in your settings. this post is here to fix that. it also doesnt hurt to spread your hash around to avoid centralisation.
there are many alternative pools you can use from the following list (if you want your DGC pool added reply below)
Pushpoolhttps://dgc.d2.cc - d2.cc - 0% fee - LP, Stratum - PPLNS - Montreal, Canada (OVH)
https://coinex.pw/mining/pools/DGC - erundook- 0% fee - PPLNS - Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://www.digicoinpool.com - BigVern - 0% fee - PPLNS - Texas, United States
http://www.miningpool.co - ethought - 1% fee - getwork, stratum - VARDIFF - Proportianal - Nuremberg, Germany (HETZNER)
http://digitalize.bounceme.net - akabane - 1% fee - stratum - PPS - Paris, France (OVH)
[Offline]
http://swmining.mine.nu/dgc/ - the1silverwolf - 1% fee - stratum - VARDIFF - DYNAMIC-PPLNS - TX FEES TO MINERS - Chicago, IL ,United States
[Maintenance]
http://cryptobullionpools.com/digital/ - CryptoBullion - 1% fee - stratum - PPLNS - Michigan, United States
p2poolhttp://dgc.xpool.net:8810 - CartmanSPC - 1% fee - Irvine, CA, United States (SAVVIS)
http://next.afraid.org:8119 - faraway - 2% fee - Paris, France (Free)
use the following format to add a failover
cgminer -o YOURMIANPOOL:3308 -u USER -p PASS -o YOURBACKUP:8088 -u USER -p PASS -the rest of your settings-
When using a p2pool you will need to mine with your (local*) wallet address
multiply your hashrate by 0.00000116 to find your share difficulty and add it to your address like so
-o YOURBACKUP:8088 -u YOURWALLETADDRESS+0.00087310 -p x
Hash Rate (KH/s) Difficulty
1 +0.00000116
5 +0.00000582
10 +0.00001164
50 +0.00005821
100 +0.00011641
250 +0.00029103
500 +0.00058207
750 +0.00087310
1000 +0.00116414
1600 +0.001862624
*Do not use an exchange or online wallet address
**Luck does play a greater part in smaller pools but should even out