Which pool to use for Fail-Over?

[Heads-Tails]

Which pool would be good to set in BFGminer as a fail-over when primary pool goes down?

I would probably accumulate at most 30min a month of mining on the fail-over pool.

Would PPS payout method be best since fail-over looks like 'pool hopping'?

I don't think I would log enough time on other share calculation methods to ever get a payout.

Should I just chose from the PPS pools?
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[eleuthria]

Anti-hopping methods don't actually hurt your income, so technically you can use just about any pool you want as a failover.   You'll just see varying amounts of fluctuation in how much your shares earn depending on the method you fallback to:


Score-based (Slush):  Extremely high variance.
PPLNS (low N value like p2pool):  High variance.
PPLNS (high N/shift-based like BTC Guild and BitMinter):  Lower variance [BTC Guild lower than BitMinter]

DGM:  Depends on the individual pool's settings.  My understanding is this should be safe as well, and can be high or low variance based on settings.



Obviously PPS means 0-variance during your failover, so it may be the preferred method.  But don't do it under the false assumption that you'll be penalized for inconsistent mining on unhoppable methods.  Most methods do not penalize inconsistent mining.

[Gator-hex]

I use P2Pools as my backups. See http://p2pool.hostv.pl/ for a list.

No account required (just use your address as your username and anything as the password) and they pay out instantly a blocks are solved.
I'd see 4-5 payouts a day.

You need to be mining 15GH+ though or you won't see a payout because your not above the dust level.

[Acejam]

I use P2Pools as my backups. See http://p2pool.hostv.pl/ for a list.

No account required (just use your address as your username and anything as the password) and they pay out instantly a blocks are solved.
I'd see 4-5 payouts a day.

You need to be mining 15GH+ though or you won't see a payout because your not above the dust level.

Check us out @ http://p2pool.io

We have a load-balanced cluster of P2Pool instances. Don't bother with a giant list of IP addresses, or someone's "extra server space" running a public node. They definitely work - but they often suffer downtime.

[EndlessWin]

p2pools are pretty good, decentralization at it's finest

[os2sam]

Your normal pools that you already have accounts with.  Then solopool.net and your local bitcoin client would be good backup choices.