[CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers

[eleuthria]

I have moved around but Like i said i have been happy with softlayer. They just build a new Level3 colation datacenter(or so i think it is. it says level3) I might be looking at to move some hardware to.

Sadly, level3 is normally the cause of a lot of packet loss in my experience with all the dedicated servers BTC Guild has moved between over the years before it went to full colo in the US.

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[demonmaestro]

hmm well my only true options around the houston area i have is SoftLayer,Level3, and HostMonster.  (HostMonster- I think i wanna puke  ). Have you played with the SoftLayer servers?

[eleuthria]

hmm well my only true options around the houston area i have is SoftLayer,Level3, and HostMonster.  (HostMonster- I think i wanna puke  ). Have you played with the SoftLayer servers?

I haven't dealt directly with SoftLayer, but I was on a SoftLayer reseller (I think).  I was also at CoreXchange which primarily used Level3 peering for the traffic at the time.  Obviously a reseller adds another step in the chain for the connections to break, but normally traceroutes would reveal the problem outside of their system and somewhere at the peering to get out of the datacenter.


EDIT:  Let's clear this out of the pool thread going forward.  I'm sure people have had enough posts about dedicated servers/datacenters for one night .

[demonmaestro]

Well either way I hope you get it worked out. Keep up the good work!  

Side note. Have you ever thought about doing litecoin?

[bbxx]

Block Erupter Blades are now available on the BTC Guild store page.  Orders of 10 units will include a backplane for easier setup/installation.

Units are in stock and shipping within 48 hours (normally same/next business day based on time of order).  Unlike USB Erupters, these will not remain on sale for the next batch once stock has run out.  The store is set to mark 'Out of Stock' in advance to allow people time to send their payments in, so if you see 'Out of Stock', check back on the forum to find out if there will be more available.  At this time I do not know if additional inventory will be ordered beyond the current batch of 100.

there is an error in spec

Hash Rate    10-11 GH/s+
Power    9-10A @ 12v (100-120w)
Shipping Time    Ships Within 2 Days
Price    4.60 BTC
Shipping (US)    Free
Shipping (Int'l.)    TBD - Not Yet Available

I got 5 blades not overclocked (1.09V old ones but new have same specs)
it took measured 360W so it takes about 72W each.
Hashrate reported was about 52GH/s from pool so 10.4 GH/s per blade
 

[SoggyLettuce]

Is it just me or did the shift time get increased by about 20 minutes?

[HellDiverUK]

Is there any reason why I can't run eu-stratum and stratum in Load Balanced mode in BFGMiner?  I'm thinking it might help if the eu-stratum server is a bit wobbly?  All the work ends up in the same place, right?  

I'm putting about 4GH/s in at the moment, shortly to increase to about 30GH/s.

[os2sam]

Is there any reason why I can't run eu-stratum and stratum in Load Balanced mode in BFGMiner?  I'm thinking it might help if the eu-stratum server is a bit wobbly?  All the work ends up in the same place, right?  

I'm putting about 4GH/s in at the moment, shortly to increase to about 30GH/s.

I've never been happy with the balance nor load balance.

So I run multiple instances of my miner with equal number of Erupters to multiple pools.  That way I know I'm getting equal hash rate to the places I want.

There is no real point, that I know of, to load balance between servers of the same pool.

[eleuthria]

there is an error in spec

I got 5 blades not overclocked (1.09V old ones but new have same specs)
it took measured 360W so it takes about 72W each.
Hashrate reported was about 52GH/s from pool so 10.4 GH/s per blade
 

The new blades default to 1.2v according to everything I've read, and are overclocked as a result compared to the original models.

[eleuthria]

USB Block Erupter coupons (0.15/unit + 0.05 handling per order) will soon be extended to any order placed above 0.29 BTC, once the currently ordered units are packed & shipped.  This will probably be in the next 2-3 hours.

[eleuthria]

Block Erupter Coupons have now been distributed to any order placed above the current retail price.  These coupons have no expiration.  Currently coupons are limited 1:1 on past orders, but this will be extended as new inventory is received.

[mdude77]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291112.msg3114865;topicseen#msg3114865

Coupon for 0.15 a piece is now over priced.

M

[eleuthria]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291112.msg3114865;topicseen#msg3114865

Coupon for 0.15 a piece is now over priced.

M

Those prices are the cost for resellers to obtain the units.  There will always be a markup from resellers for shipping and a profit.

[eleuthria]

Website/Database Maintenance

There will be a maintenance period tomorrow at approximately 3 PM Pacific Time.  During this time the website will be temporarily unavailable as the database is moved to the new server!  The pool servers will also have a brief restart once the new server migration is ready to be completed.

The website will simply have a placeholder message during maintenance notifying users that it is under maintenance, in order to make the migration as quickly as possible.  This transition will speed up website response times on data heavy pages, and significantly reduce the lag when major scripts execute.

[demonmaestro]

I wonder if i will have to restart my Raspberry pi inorder for it to reconnect to the pooling server. I really hope not. It may not restart. Its at that stage where its working and i dont want to touch it. It may not work anymore if i do..

So did you move DataCenters again or you staying up there?
Should of gotten with me at the beginning of this year i have a rack full of server i sold for $1k i had 4 - poweredge 2850, 1 Poweredge 1950, 2 poweredge 2650, and 3 poweredge 6600 i think they were.

Holy smokes someone has a 26.83Th monster on the pool..

[guytechie]

I can't keep up with you guys!  I'm at an amazing 4.5 GH/s setup, and only starting to make enough for 2 erupters (push to 5.1 GH).  Actually will be 4.1 GH because I will be shutting down my GPU miners (1 GH total).

I don't know how you guys afford to build these monsters!

[demonmaestro]

I can't keep up with you guys!  I'm at an amazing 4.5 GH/s setup, and only starting to make enough for 2 erupters (push to 5.1 GH).  Actually will be 4.1 GH because I will be shutting down my GPU miners (1 GH total).

I don't know how you guys afford to build these monsters!

They got into it early.

[eleuthria]

I wonder if i will have to restart my Raspberry pi inorder for it to reconnect to the pooling server. I really hope not. It may not restart. Its at that stage where its working and i dont want to touch it. It may not work anymore if i do..

So did you move DataCenters again or you staying up there?
Should of gotten with me at the beginning of this year i have a rack full of server i sold for $1k i had 4 - poweredge 2850, 1 Poweredge 1950, 2 poweredge 2650, and 3 poweredge 6600 i think they were.

Holy smokes someone has a 26.83Th monster on the pool..

Reconnecting is normally transparent with modern mining software, a lot of the early issues where miners would never reconnect to Stratum have mostly been fixed.  I think the last time the pool servers were restarted the drop in hash rate from miners that failed to reconnect wasn't even measurable compared to the normal hash rate variance.

Same datacenter, just migrating to much better hardware for the database.  The current DB server was never intended to be running something like BTC Guild.  New server is a 1U SuperMicro, E3-1230v2, 32 GB ram, and an LSI 9260-4i with SSDs in RAID1.

[demonmaestro]

supermicro makes some nice hardware but SSD still has not made me all giggidy in the server world. There lifespan still is not where i want it.

Are you kidding me with raid1?    Why not raid 6(5+1)? raid5 is too glitchy
You sure a single quad core will be able to cut it?

[eleuthria]

supermicro makes some nice hardware but SSD still has not made me all giggidy in the server world. There lifespan still is not where i want it.

Are you kidding me with raid1?    Why not raid 6? raid5 is too glitchy
You sure a single quad core will be able to cut it?

Honestly, MySQL is so terrible when it comes to threading performance for large table queries that a dual core would work just fine, as long as it's clocked fast enough.  E3-1230v2 is 3.3 ghz (3.7 turboboost) per core, which is a more than 50% increase in raw clock rate than the current 2x quad core processors it's sitting on (also 6 year newer CPU architecture).  The new server is being tweaked in a lot of other ways too prior to the migration.