Same regarding electricity, as it's a gonna be more "industrial mining" does recruiting a elec tech make sense?
You need a certified /experienced electrician to set up the electricity infrastructure, but you don't need one 24/7, once a while a fuse or an MCB will need to be changed, but that should be on-call basis, there is no point hiring someone just for that if the set up is perfect you might not need an electrician for years, if ever.
Since the place is secured, you need someone who can access the farm "physically" in the shortest time possible, if everything runs fine and the farm is in a passive state you will only need someone to go there to clean the miners maybe once a month or quarterly (it will depend on how clean the air is), but problems like a dead PSU or a miner that needs hard reboot are ever going, and there is really no way for you to know how frequent you are going to need that someone.
In other words, let's say you pay that person $100 per visit/task vs $2000 a month for full-time attendance at the farm, so if you have 50 miners, then paying per visit would make more sense, if you have to say 500 miners then the number of visits will probably be a lot higher and thus paying $2000 a month would be better, this depends entirely on what options you have and how many miners you have because the more miners you have the more likely you face issues.
The person you need to hire doesn't need to have an IT certificate, basic IT knowledge is enough, and of course, he needs to know how to use a screwdriver
, most things he will be doing are:
- Changing a dead PSU
- Replacing a dead fan
- Changing a LAN cable
You will need to monitor everything from home and tell him for example, change fan.2 on miner number 111, but if you want someone to fully operate the farm then you might want a full-time employee.
You should also use monitoring software such as AwesomeMiner, learn how to use it (it isn't all that simple), once you master it, it will be as good as having 2-3 employees who are watching every gear 24/7, the software itself will reboot the miner if needed, control the hash rate, reduce it if the miner gets hot, increase it if it's cold, send you an email/telegram messages when a miner goes offline and etc., this drastically reduces the need of someone to be in the farm, and thus saves you a lot of money.
Anyone running their own farm without proxies simply has never understood what a proxy is - it simplifies everything with only gain, no loss.
Wrong. there is a loss in monitoring the individual miner performance, if the hashrate drops at the pool, you will need to manually check which miner is having a problem, also there is a single point of failure if the hardware that hosts the proxy has any issues the whole farm will go offline, so you will need a few back-ups to escape that, if bandwidth isn't an issue, the use of proxy has more disadvantages than advantages, also, most open source proxy projects are abandoned and buggy as hell.
