Free $100 Amazon EC2 Credit for CPU mining Photoshares or anything else...

[yuriy128]

If the client reboots and I login via PuTTY, should a regular mining log be appearing?

no, you can run "top" to see the cpu usage though

Thanks, are the 'kworker' entries the miner processes?
Also, after editing my crontab, do I press ESC, type ':x', ENTER to save it or is there another syntax when doing this in PuTTY?
I apologize if these questions seem silly; I have very little Linux experience.

No, should be jhphotominer...
Search "vi" editor key shortcuts.

[ToTheMoon1k]

I have an Amazon 100.00 credit for ec2, but I am completely dumb when it comes to this stuff.  Help, in words a child could understand?

[smooth]

YPool is down again, seems like cc3.8 spot instances prices are 0.8 + in AP-Jap , any idea whats the performance diff between cc2 and cc3 ?

There is very little difference in performance. Do not pay 0.80 for this, you will lose money. It is roughly break even for cc2. In fact other than the $100 free credit there is no real reason do this at current prices unless you really want to put money into PTS.

[smooth]

Is ypool down again?

Yep, it looks like it's that situation, again  I wonder if AWS would keep on charging per hour,  even after no network activity...

They will not miss charging you, network activity or not. Nothing on the ypool twitter account either. 

It is possible to set up alarms though.

[Teka]

Looks like capacity is oversubscribed

[96redformula]

I just worry a bit about crazy charges as they do not show hourly usage or update it regularly like Digital Ocean.

[robozombie]

I have an Amazon 100.00 credit for ec2, but I am completely dumb when it comes to this stuff.  Help, in words a child could understand?

Oh, no, no, no... That's the wrong approach when it comes to trying to get into virtual currency mining! You need to ask specific questions, because if someone would have to explain everything related to this, it'd be a time-consuming task. So, please, ask specific questions. You'd definitely get more answers that way!

[Lederstrumpf]

If the client reboots and I login via PuTTY, should a regular mining log be appearing?

no, you can run "top" to see the cpu usage though

Thanks, are the 'kworker' entries the miner processes?
Also, after editing my crontab, do I press ESC, type ':x', ENTER to save it or is there another syntax when doing this in PuTTY?
I apologize if these questions seem silly; I have very little Linux experience.

No, should be jhphotominer...
Search "vi" editor key shortcuts.

Thanks yuri; it's working flawlessly now!

[Quartx]

If the client reboots and I login via PuTTY, should a regular mining log be appearing?

no, you can run "top" to see the cpu usage though

Thanks, are the 'kworker' entries the miner processes?
Also, after editing my crontab, do I press ESC, type ':x', ENTER to save it or is there another syntax when doing this in PuTTY?
I apologize if these questions seem silly; I have very little Linux experience.

After modifying, press esc key and type :wq, this writes to file and quits vim editor, you can do a sudo crontab -l to double check

[Lederstrumpf]

If the client reboots and I login via PuTTY, should a regular mining log be appearing?

no, you can run "top" to see the cpu usage though

Thanks, are the 'kworker' entries the miner processes?
Also, after editing my crontab, do I press ESC, type ':x', ENTER to save it or is there another syntax when doing this in PuTTY?
I apologize if these questions seem silly; I have very little Linux experience.

After modifying, press esc key and type :wq, this writes to file and quits vim editor, you can do a sudo crontab -l to double check

Yes, that's what I did eventually.
Thanks for responding though

[Quartx]

Lets say I do not create 20 instances and let them run for 19 hours, how will I know the charges? Will they appear in billing when instance is terminated, or do I have to wait until the end of the month? Is there any way to see current charges, as in do spot instances have the same billing cycles as normal instances? Wouldnt it be too late as I wont know when credits are used?

they show up id bill details after a few hours. You have to expand the list to see credit applied

So i have to actually terminate them for the bill to appear in a few hours time? Because my instances have been running for 12hours and billing still says $0 and credits still $100

[Lederstrumpf]

The share value per hour varies wildly between my different processing instances. Is there any way to optimize the process?

[Quartx]

Well spot instances are actually excess capacity, therefore your mileage may vary, wait a few hours for the shares per hour to stabilize, im getting about 180+ on each of my 5 instances

[Hampuz]

Well spot instances are actually excess capacity, therefore your mileage may vary, wait a few hours for the shares per hour to stabilize, im getting about 180+ on each of my 5 instances

Do you use the cc2 instance that he recommended in the guide?

[Quartx]

Well spot instances are actually excess capacity, therefore your mileage may vary, wait a few hours for the shares per hour to stabilize, im getting about 180+ on each of my 5 instances

Do you use the cc2 instance that he recommended in the guide?

Yup, why? Should i be getting more shares per hour?

[Hampuz]

No, I think I've got something wrong since you are getting more than me ^^

[AceCobra1]

I just made my account as it says in the guide but in my status, it says price-too-low. I have placed max price as 0.253

Any ideas ?

[Hampuz]

I just made my account as it says in the guide but in my status, it says price-too-low. I have placed max price as 0.253

Any ideas ?

Try and take it up to 0.255 or something like that, i did it instantly since people here said there were long waiting times when putting .253, so try that and come back if it did not help.

-Hampuz

[Quartx]

I just made my account as it says in the guide but in my status, it says price-too-low. I have placed max price as 0.253

Any ideas ?

Try and take it up to 0.255 or something like that, i did it instantly since people here said there were long waiting times when putting .253, so try that and come back if it did not help.

-Hampuz

Just put it at $0.3 ++ , you will have priority , but as everyone pays the same spot pricing, you will most probably get billed $0.253 every hour like everyone else, the maximum price is just the price that they will terminate your instance if the current spot price is higher. You will never pay more then your max price, and most probably you will always pay $0.25 +

[yuriy128]

So how many PTS have any of you mined so far?