[~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More

[DutchBrat]

Seems to be up and running again. Workers accepting shares !

[flower1024]

mining works fine for me...(de+de2)

just four "connections errors" half an hour ago..

thats not that much.

i dont care much about the website

[eleuthria]

Moving the pool off the US West web server after putting it off for other issues.  The miner reconnects are triggering some DDoS filters at the ISP.  I've moved the DNS over to another server temporarily to get miners off of US West.

DE, DE2, Central, and East are fine right now.  Shares still counting, work still being issued.

[sharky112065]

Before you guys try freaky shit with your servers maybe you could send out a warning e-mail.


Profits are razor thin for me I don't know about others

You should have a backup pool setup for your miners.

BTC Guild has undergone tremendous growth lately and he is working hard to expand the server infrastructure. Plus, he has a job and the weekend probably is his best time to make those changes.

I believe what he is doing will make it better for all of us in the long run.

BTC Guild is still the best Pool IMO.

[eleuthria]

Before you guys try freaky shit with your servers maybe you could send out a warning e-mail.


Profits are razor thin for me I don't know about others

I'm sorry, the next time we have unplanned server issues I'll make sure to warn everybody in advance.

I'm trying to get these servers to last the next 5-10 days, at which point I can put our new colo'd hardware online which has enough power to match our current US Servers, while being loadbalanced with internal failover.  The hardware is mostly setup, and it'll be shipped out to a colo facility in Chicago on Tuesday.

[OCedHrt]

Moving the pool off the US West web server after putting it off for other issues.  The miner reconnects are triggering some DDoS filters at the ISP.  I've moved the DNS over to another server temporarily to get miners off of US West.

DE, DE2, Central, and East are fine right now.  Shares still counting, work still being issued.

I still can't connect to west, east, central, de, or de2. Maybe I'm blacklisted by ISP???

[joker]

As of this second I'm connected just fine.

[DutchBrat]

Thx Eleuthria. You are doing a great job !

I knew I didn't have my donations set at 2.6% for nothing  

Next job: make sure our luck increases lol

[Duffman]

I'm about to leave the house for maybe a week. which server should I leave the PC connected to? do you think

[fxgmblr]

time for me to leave btcguild.
site is slow, servers crash a lot, too many freaking ppl using it

[kodess]

I'm about to leave the house for maybe a week. which server should I leave the PC connected to? do you think

de2
if in europe.

[eleuthria]

DE1 and US East are getting DDoS'd (just to add more work to my weekend).

[fxgmblr]

DE1 and US East are getting DDoS'd (just to add more work to my weekend).

oh.. wut a bunch of a-holes

[eleuthria]

Servers are looking pretty stable again.  This whole issue at least allowed the removal of the pool from the web server, which means a pool issue won't bring the website crashing down as it has in the past.  The sync code between servers also received an update after taking down US West, NL1, and NL2, far less aggressive sync attempts (meaning one server having connection issues won't take down another server with it).  The downside is it means that rounds may extend a few seconds past their actual solve time (up to a minute).  The upside is that if one round is extended due to a sync issue, the following round will be that much shorter.

The new server hardware will hopefully be online around July 11.  It's IMPOSSIBLE to effectively stress test this kind of machine to replicate the real world conditions, but the underlying software configuration has been tested with the help of the IRC chatroom.  Failover when a sub-pool crashes takes about 4-6 seconds to kick in, meaning you can point your miners at one IP and it will automatically put them at an internal pool.  There will still be an EU alternate set of servers, so if a connection issue occurs between you and the US pool, there are still fallbacks on different ISPs.

[Jen4538]

I will see how it goes in the next day or two but if servers are still having problems and I cant make enough with this pool I will have to switch


Jen

[BitMinerN8]

Servers are looking pretty stable again.  This whole issue at least allowed the removal of the pool from the web server, which means a pool issue won't bring the website crashing down as it has in the past.  The sync code between servers also received an update after taking down US West, NL1, and NL2, far less aggressive sync attempts (meaning one server having connection issues won't take down another server with it).  The downside is it means that rounds may extend a few seconds past their actual solve time (up to a minute).  The upside is that if one round is extended due to a sync issue, the following round will be that much shorter.

The new server hardware will hopefully be online around July 11.  It's IMPOSSIBLE to effectively stress test this kind of machine to replicate the real world conditions, but the underlying software configuration has been tested with the help of the IRC chatroom.  Failover when a sub-pool crashes takes about 4-6 seconds to kick in, meaning you can point your miners at one IP and it will automatically put them at an internal pool.  There will still be an EU alternate set of servers, so if a connection issue occurs between you and the US pool, there are still fallbacks on different ISPs.

Thanks for all your hard work @eleuthria, especially over a holiday weekend! (US)
Looking forward to the next server configuration. 

[Endeavour79]

I appreciate the work at the servers  but I left this pool because of all the issues, worker connection problems, freezing servers and so on..

For me, the change to Deepbit was like a "sit back and relax now" thing because it's all working so smooth now.. 

[CubedRoot]

Unfortunately, I had to move to another pool as well. I switched over to Eclipsemc.com which is a small pool, but has some really nice features and has been rock solid stable for me. I especially like the SMS notifications of a downed miner.  If a miner goes down, they send me a text message. 

[IlbiStarz]

I appreciate the work at the servers  but I left this pool because of all the issues, worker connection problems, freezing servers and so on..

For me, the change to Deepbit was like a "sit back and relax now" thing because it's all working so smooth now.. 

I don't want to but I'm thinking about this too Every time I go backup to Deepbit it works super smooth. I hope BTCGuild can get this kind of efficiency soon

[Bitonetta]

I've been with btcguild since they were up.  After tonite, I'm finally getting around to moving my miners elsewhere.  It's a mess now.  My GHash is more then half wasted on idles, rejected and disconnects.  I hate moving miners around too since I have 30 boxes I need to adjust. 

I'll try back at another date, hopefully they'll have everything sorted out by then.