I need a virtual desktop for cloud mining, suggestions?

[JohnnyPierce]

Here's the deal, I am from Europe and I have my uncle in Brazil has granted me access to the infrastructure of computers of his company, I've been cloud mining for the past few hours and I got decent results, I'm mining on multipool and I'm getting about 7 Mh/s, I have a problem though, my computer cannot be online for to long, it's a very poor machine, constantly overheating and crashing, but considering that I can only cloud mine through SSH on putty, if I turn off my computer, the cloud mining stops, I need some sort of virtual desktop on the web from which I can control the remote computers, in a way that I am able to shutdown my machine and the process keeps doing.

Any suggestion?

[alani123]

Here's the deal, I am from Europe and I have my uncle in Brazil has granted me access to the infrastructure of computers of his company, I've been cloud mining for the past few hours and I got decent results, I'm mining on multipool and I'm getting about 7 Mh/s, I have a problem though, my computer cannot be online for to long, it's a very poor machine, constantly overheating and crashing, but considering that I can only cloud mine through SSH on putty, if I turn off my computer, the cloud mining stops, I need some sort of virtual desktop on the web from which I can control the remote computers, in a way that I am able to shutdown my machine and the process keeps doing.

Any suggestion?

Digital Ocean

There were pretty open that they don't dissalow mining with their services.

[JohnnyPierce]

Here's the deal, I am from Europe and I have my uncle in Brazil has granted me access to the infrastructure of computers of his company, I've been cloud mining for the past few hours and I got decent results, I'm mining on multipool and I'm getting about 7 Mh/s, I have a problem though, my computer cannot be online for to long, it's a very poor machine, constantly overheating and crashing, but considering that I can only cloud mine through SSH on putty, if I turn off my computer, the cloud mining stops, I need some sort of virtual desktop on the web from which I can control the remote computers, in a way that I am able to shutdown my machine and the process keeps doing.

Any suggestion?

Digital Ocean

There were pretty open that they don't dissalow mining with their services.

You got me wrong, I'm not looking for a VPS to cloud mine, I'm looking for a remote desktop from which I can control cloud mining.

When you cloud mine, you have to keep your computer on in order for the SSH session to exist and operate, I don't need digitalocean because I already have access to a server infrastructure in Brazil, but I need some web desktop from which I can control it, since I cannot have my computer on for more than a few hours at a time.

[alani123]

Well,I think that amazon workplaces has a similar service. Not really sure though. I don't have any technical knowledge with it. Now that you find out about it I guess you could do your own research about it and see if it works for you.

here's a link: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/

[JohnnyPierce]

Well,I think that amazon workplaces has a similar service. Not really sure though. I don't have any technical knowledge with it. Now that you find out about it I guess you could do your own research about it and see if it works for you.

here's a link: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/

Thanks, I believe that is what I was looking for, and it also seems to have a fairly decent free tier. By looking at the specs, it seems that it could also potentially be another good platform for cloud mining, I wonder if anyone has tried it?

Also, are you aware of other similar services? Nowadays it's really not good to keep all your eggs in one basket!

[alani123]

So did it work?

[Underpants]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNU_Screen


You don't need a virtual desktop. You need to use "screen"

[JohnnyPierce]

So did it work?

I signed up with them last night, but for some reason I'm unable to get it to work, when I go to the console it says that I need to subscribe to the workspaces to be able to access them, but in other page it says I'm already registered.

I'm trying to read the documentation, but it seems I did everything correctly, so I'm not understanding where exactly have I failed.

[JohnnyPierce]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNU_Screen


You don't need a virtual desktop. You need to use "screen"

Please elaborate? I have a very, very limited knowledge of Linux.

You're saying that I have to install the GNU screen application on the mining VPS servers? Is that it?

[JohnnyPierce]

Also, something to consider, as I mentioned earlier, my uncle has provided me access to its server infrastructure in Brazil, but he has given me this access under the form of 1500 DIFFERENT VPS Logins, which means that the 7 Mh/s that I mentioned earlier is only possible by being connected to 1500 INDIVIDUAL SSH sessions.

I had to MANUALLY install cpuminer in 1500 different sessions, which in of itself took me nearly 4 days.

[zupreme]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNU_Screen


You don't need a virtual desktop. You need to use "screen"

Please elaborate? I have a very, very limited knowledge of Linux.

You're saying that I have to install the GNU screen application on the mining VPS servers? Is that it?

That is correct.  You only need to run your process via screen and the process will continue running whether you are connected or not.

Alternatively you could put a reference to your script into rc.d and it will run when the system boots.


You've got lots of options.

[jonnybravo0311]

You're using Putty.  All you have to do is start your remote miners with the nohup command added to them.  Example:

nohup ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.somepool.com:3333 -u workerName -p workerPassword &

If you were to use screen as was suggested earlier, you'd have to install it on the remote machine.  Not sure what Linux flavor those remote machines are running, but if they're on a Debian-derived distro, you'd just do this:

sudo apt-get install screen

Then, you'd start your miners like this:

sudo screen -dmS MyMiners ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.somepool.com:3333 -u workerName -p workerPassword

This starts up a session in the background.  To access it, you'd just do this:

sudo screen -dR MyMiners

Then, once you're in the screen, to get out of it, all you need to do is hold down the control key and hit a then d.

[JohnnyPierce]

You're using Putty.  All you have to do is start your remote miners with the nohup command added to them.  Example:

nohup ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.somepool.com:3333 -u workerName -p workerPassword &

If you were to use screen as was suggested earlier, you'd have to install it on the remote machine.  Not sure what Linux flavor those remote machines are running, but if they're on a Debian-derived distro, you'd just do this:

sudo apt-get install screen

Then, you'd start your miners like this:

sudo screen -dmS MyMiners ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.somepool.com:3333 -u workerName -p workerPassword

This starts up a session in the background.  To access it, you'd just do this:

sudo screen -dR MyMiners

Then, once you're in the screen, to get out of it, all you need to do is hold down the control key and hit a then d.

And with this method, can I just set it and forget it?

Setup, install, run and never login to it again?

Also, I'm running cpuminer, not bfminer, does this also work with cpuminer? Considering that I would have to manually install bfminer in 1500 different sessions to make this change effective?

[jonnybravo0311]

You're using Putty.  All you have to do is start your remote miners with the nohup command added to them.  Example:

nohup ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.somepool.com:3333 -u workerName -p workerPassword &

If you were to use screen as was suggested earlier, you'd have to install it on the remote machine.  Not sure what Linux flavor those remote machines are running, but if they're on a Debian-derived distro, you'd just do this:

sudo apt-get install screen

Then, you'd start your miners like this:

sudo screen -dmS MyMiners ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.somepool.com:3333 -u workerName -p workerPassword

This starts up a session in the background.  To access it, you'd just do this:

sudo screen -dR MyMiners

Then, once you're in the screen, to get out of it, all you need to do is hold down the control key and hit a then d.

And with this method, can I just set it and forget it?

Setup, install, run and never login to it again?

Pretty much.

Also, something to consider, as I mentioned earlier, my uncle has provided me access to its server infrastructure in Brazil, but he has given me this access under the form of 1500 DIFFERENT VPS Logins, which means that the 7 Mh/s that I mentioned earlier is only possible by being connected to 1500 INDIVIDUAL SSH sessions.

I had to MANUALLY install cpuminer in 1500 different sessions, which in of itself took me nearly 4 days.

Please tell me I'm not reading this correctly or that you've misrepresented your hash rate, or you're mining something other than BTC.  1500 sessions.  7MH/s???  I get far greater rate than that out of my MacBookPro running CPU miner.

[JohnnyPierce]

Oh, sorry, I never explained myself, I'm not mining SHA256, I'm mining Scrypt altcoins!

[crilleaz]

As above, Screen is used to keep things alive.

This guide (little easier than above) will make everything run fine!

1. sudo apt-get install screen
2. let it download and install
3. in the terminal: screen -R miner1
4. hit enter, a new screen will load, its blank
5. enter the CLI (command line) for your miner
6. do CTRL+A+D to leave the screen (the screen is still running)


Done!

If you wanna monitor the screen:
1. screen -r miner1
2. CTRL+A+D to leave the screen again.

If you want to destory the screen:
1. screen -r miner1
2. CTRL+D (may have to press it twice)
3. Screen is dead.

[jonnybravo0311]

Oh, sorry, I never explained myself, I'm not mining SHA256, I'm mining Scrypt altcoins!

Gotcha.  That makes far more sense.  Your Uncle is a very nice guy if he's letting you peg all those CPUs to 100% all the time.  You should tell him to pick up a couple of those Scrypt blade miners and hook them into a single machine in his data center.  You'd get greater hash rate, and he'd not have to worry about you burning out his machines.

[JohnnyPierce]

Oh, sorry, I never explained myself, I'm not mining SHA256, I'm mining Scrypt altcoins!

Gotcha.  That makes far more sense.  Your Uncle is a very nice guy if he's letting you peg all those CPUs to 100% all the time.  You should tell him to pick up a couple of those Scrypt blade miners and hook them into a single machine in his data center.  You'd get greater hash rate, and he'd not have to worry about you burning out his machines.

Well, those computers are used mainly for storage, so the CPU resources are never really used in any profitable way, that is why he granted me the logins.

What are those scrypt blade miners, how do they work, and more importantly, how much do they cost?

[jonnybravo0311]

Oh, sorry, I never explained myself, I'm not mining SHA256, I'm mining Scrypt altcoins!

Gotcha.  That makes far more sense.  Your Uncle is a very nice guy if he's letting you peg all those CPUs to 100% all the time.  You should tell him to pick up a couple of those Scrypt blade miners and hook them into a single machine in his data center.  You'd get greater hash rate, and he'd not have to worry about you burning out his machines.

Well, those computers are used mainly for storage, so the CPU resources are never really used in any profitable way, that is why he granted me the logins.

What are those scrypt blade miners, how do they work, and more importantly, how much do they cost?

The Scrypt blade miners are ASIC hardware for mining coins like LTC, DOGE, etc.  At present Gridseed manufactures them, along with their 5-chip dual miners.  The miners are dual blades, with each blade having 40 chips, for a total of approximately 5.2 MH/s from the unit, all for about 140 watts.  You can pick them up for about $1500 USD give or take.  If you were to pick one up for yourself, you'd have to deal with VAT and customs fees (depending on where in Europe you are).  I'm not sure what kind of tax/import fees there are in Brazil.

[JohnnyPierce]

Oh, sorry, I never explained myself, I'm not mining SHA256, I'm mining Scrypt altcoins!

Gotcha.  That makes far more sense.  Your Uncle is a very nice guy if he's letting you peg all those CPUs to 100% all the time.  You should tell him to pick up a couple of those Scrypt blade miners and hook them into a single machine in his data center.  You'd get greater hash rate, and he'd not have to worry about you burning out his machines.

Well, those computers are used mainly for storage, so the CPU resources are never really used in any profitable way, that is why he granted me the logins.

What are those scrypt blade miners, how do they work, and more importantly, how much do they cost?

The Scrypt blade miners are ASIC hardware for mining coins like LTC, DOGE, etc.  At present Gridseed manufactures them, along with their 5-chip dual miners.  The miners are dual blades, with each blade having 40 chips, for a total of approximately 5.2 MH/s from the unit, all for about 140 watts.  You can pick them up for about $1500 USD give or take.  If you were to pick one up for yourself, you'd have to deal with VAT and customs fees (depending on where in Europe you are).  I'm not sure what kind of tax/import fees there are in Brazil.

That's pretty expensive, considering that I can get about 7 Mh/s for free.