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[Xephan]

I just confirmed this by logging in to check the 8 accounts I manage, stats are frozen but more importantly rewards earned are too. WTF is going on.

I'll confirm this, stats are not updating at all.

[Coolhwip]

Updating now. We were probably being DDOS'd (maliciously or not) or it was self inflicted from the new server stress testing.

[eleuthria]

Fixed the issue.  Stats script/new block script were failing to connect to the OLD US Central server, which was cancelled.  It shouldn't have gone offline though (its supposed to stay active til August 10th).  The host for the old Central is pretty laggy, so its possible they're getting attacked again [unrelated to us].

[eleuthria]

An update on last night's stats problem:

The host for the OLD US Central server is physically moving locations.  This information was not available in any obvious posting/alert, it was hidden in their support desk about 2 weeks ago.

When the stat scripts / new block scripts run, they abort if a server connection cannot be made (otherwise the block would be calculated missing a server of shares).

Luckily we're no longer with that hosting company, I'm just waiting for it to come back online so I can transfer the BTC to our main wallet.  I've already manually set the US Central (old) blocks to 120 confirmations since they were stuck around 30 confirms remaining.

[eleuthria]

Heads up regarding maintenance tomorrow:

Tomorrow at noon (PST) I will be moving the website to a different server.  The pools will remain functional during the move, and your shares/rounds will be allocated once the new website is in place.  Estimated downtime to move the server is approximately 1 hour.  It may take a little longer for your DNS cache to update to the new IP address.

[fcmatt]

i have read your posts above but it does appear like the stats problem is back. my worker speed is 0
and the last share value is 5 minutes and counting.


er... it just updated. never mind.

[eleuthria]

i have read your posts above but it does appear like the stats problem is back. my worker speed is 0
and the last share value is 5 minutes and counting.


er... it just updated. never mind.

I've been doing some cleanup on the code before preparing to move the website, so a few small anomalies might appear for a few minutes here and there.  Mostly working on the server synchronization and making it far more aggressive, now that we're only running two major servers.  A lot of the scripts are now executing almost instantly thanks to only needing to open up 2 remote SQL connections instead of 6-8.

[epdp14]

I think something is wrong. I have been using uscentral for about a week and a half now and have been getting very consistent rewards, especially after E killed the hoppers. For the past day and a half, however, I have been getting approximately 60% of the expected value for rewards. I understand that the difficulty went up and therefore the expected value goes down... but not by 40%? My miners all have the same hash value, same everything... just different rewards. I have temporarily moved to deepbit but I like this pool and I donate at the 2.5% level. Is it just the website stats being wrong? Any help is appreciated.

[jjiimm_64]

I think something is wrong. I have been using uscentral for about a week and a half now and have been getting very consistent rewards, especially after E killed the hoppers. For the past day and a half, however, I have been getting approximately 60% of the expected value for rewards. I understand that the difficulty went up and therefore the expected value goes down... but not by 40%? My miners all have the same hash value, same everything... just different rewards. I have temporarily moved to deepbit but I like this pool and I donate at the 2.5% level. Is it just the website stats being wrong? Any help is appreciated.

I believe it is because we have only found 10 blocks in the past 19 hours roughly...

[epdp14]

Dayum. I guess it would have helped to check the stats page. That is so far away from expected value that I didn't even consider it a possibility. Thanks for the quick response.

[Yatta99]

Same here. The last 5 days have been very consistent but today is down about 1/3  Too many evil 2+ hour block sucking out all our luck 
 

[Xephan]

Same here. The last 5 days have been very consistent but today is down about 1/3  Too many evil 2+ hour block sucking out all our luck 
 

Yeah, it sucks expected 24hr returns are like 1/2 of yesterday

[fcmatt]

Same here. The last 5 days have been very consistent but today is down about 1/3  Too many evil 2+ hour block sucking out all our luck 
 

slush's pool is in the same boat we are in. about the same speed and an awful lot of 2+ hour blocks
sprinkled in there.

deepbit on the other hand has been seeing very consistent results... very few 1+ hour blocks for
them in the last 24 hours.

we had a good last 5 days and now we are paying for it.

[pennytrader]

Seems I partially missed the good 5 days. For the last 3 days, I was mining namecoins...

[eleuthria]

Small change to the website interface.  Moved the "quick stats" box from the upper right of the page and created a statistics bar fixed to the top.

For now its just pool stats.  I have the following 3 priorities right now:

1) Move the webserver [in about 9 hours]
2) Automatic Payouts
3) Replace US West's load balancer with the setup used on US Central [next weekend]
4) Mining teams (more info on this later)
5) AJAX option for stats bar at top/personal stats.

[eleuthria]

Website move is complete about 45 minutes ahead of schedule, the prep work paid off.  DNS entries have been changed.  The TTL was set to just 30 minutes, so most users should be able to access the website within the next 30 minutes unless their ISP/computer are not honoring the TTL.

[eleuthria]

"Shares Since Last" - A confusing stat which wasn't all that useful has been replaced by "Estimated Shares This Round".  It is an approximation of the shares that are a part of the next announced round.

[irishmick]

Anyone else lose all shares out of our round 1869?

1870
   137827   2011-07-24 16:34:22   1:05:39   2139520   84 until confirmed   30   0.00068356   0.00001753   
View
1869
   137817   2011-07-24 15:28:43   0:23:10   762073   74 until confirmed   None   None   None   
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1868
   137814   2011-07-24 15:05:33   0:07:03   227946   71 until confirmed   37   0.00791305   0.00020290


I was out of town and just got back. I could have had some other issue (internet connection).

Most likely it is my end as preceding round and following are both showing much less than I would normally get, but just wanted to double check.

Thanks for any who can confirm theirs are normal.

[nafai]

My share on round 1869 on btcguild are normal, about the same proportions as other nearby rounds.

[jjiimm_64]

My share on round 1869 on btcguild are normal, about the same proportions as other nearby rounds.

I have also received a 'normal' amount of shares