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October 25, 2013, 03:31:40 AM |
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Playing around in btcworld has opened my eyes to the power of distributed computing, and I'm considering what other kinds of work could be done like this. The big question I need to answer is how much it costs to run a host (or several) to distribute the work to miners. I'm hoping to glean some advice from you hardworking mine owners on the ins and outs of organizing a labor union. My project is just computing - not bitcoin, not altcoin, just finely tuned work served up piping hot.
I expect to have the same technical challenges as a bitcoin mining server - a crapload of simultaneous connections, and highly variable bandwidth. Who's a good host? Is bitcoind hosting common enough that wide pipe small brain is an actual commodity these days? Will a cheap and cheerful shell account be absolutely owned by attempting to organize the equivalent of gigahashes? What about terahashes? (PH is some time off)
What should I expect to pay, and what performance should I expect per dollar in what region? If anyone here administers their own server farm, I'd be interested to hear what you'd sell some spare cycles for.
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