[ANN] CoinLab Protected Pool

[petabytecoin]

Still having occasionally comunication failures and plenty of Pool not providing work fast enough. The very annoying thing is that is never bad enough for cgminer to consider the backup pool but bad enough for hashrate to drop (failover strategies).

Load balance strategy seems to always favour the backup pool even when CoinLab is doing OK, so no.
Balance strategy works, but with a hashrate often significantly reduced (70-50%), so no again.
The site is also sometimes unreachable.
NO, I do not have any net/software/hardware problems.

Any ETA on EU servers?

I have had same experience with comm failures, pool not providing work fast enough, etc. What is the bottleneck for this, bandwidth? Server power on their side? I'm not that far geographically from them so that's not it. I also don't get these errors on other pools that are much farther away.

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[CoinLab]

Still having occasionally comunication failures and plenty of Pool not providing work fast enough. The very annoying thing is that is never bad enough for cgminer to consider the backup pool but bad enough for hashrate to drop (failover strategies).

Load balance strategy seems to always favour the backup pool even when CoinLab is doing OK, so no.
Balance strategy works, but with a hashrate often significantly reduced (70-50%), so no again.
The site is also sometimes unreachable.
NO, I do not have any net/software/hardware problems.

Any ETA on EU servers?

I have had same experience with comm failures, pool not providing work fast enough, etc. What is the bottleneck for this, bandwidth? Server power on their side? I'm not that far geographically from them so that's not it. I also don't get these errors on other pools that are much farther away.

Sorry about the growing pains we've been having with our pool.  There are two sources for these communication failures.

1) We had capacity issues with our servers - causing them to slow down.
2) When we update our server software, we drop connections temporarily.

As we've gotten more demand for our pool, we've had to add additional front-end servers, and today we switched to high-cpu instances on Amazon.  We are trying to get ahead of the curve - as of today I think we've doubled our capacity, which should reduce latency and allow more miners to connect w/o overloading our servers again.

I want to assure you that even when we have intermittent communication failures, you should not be losing any shares.  We have a lenient 90-second share acceptance policy; so as long as your miner is able to re-establish a connection to our pool within 90 seconds from the time we gave you the work, you will still get credit for it (even if it is stale).

Thanks again for your feedback, patience and helping us improve our pool!

Mike Koss
CTO, CoinLab

[Tittiez]

Only about 0.02% stales, pretty great compared to the 0.2% to 1% I get on other pools!

[CoinLab]

Only about 0.02% stales, pretty great compared to the 0.2% to 1% I get on other pools!

Thanks.  We thinks it's "our fault" if we give you work that will end up as a stale; so as long as you pushwork to us with 90 seconds of the getwork, your share will be accepted (we accept work even longer if the block is still current, or course).

Note that our roll-n-time header indicates the 90 second allowable timestamp rolling - that seemed a good place to indicate how long we're accepting work from time of issuance - if we changes our acceptance time, we'd also change the roll-n-time header to match.

Mike Koss
CTO, Coinlab

[CoinLab]

Just a note, we're doing an update on the pool servers today.  At present, we drop your LongPoll connections, which make it look like the pool has a communications error.  We keep multiple front-ends running so your miner should be able to reconnect (to another front-end) immediately, with no loss of work credits.

I just wanted to warn you in case you see server glitches.  We're planning on fixing this soon, so you won't even see the communication losses when we update servers.

Thanks!

Mike Koss
CTO, CoinLab

[yochdog]

When can we expect payouts?

I have been mining for 3 weeks and have received nothing as of this morning.....

[imsaguy]

When can we expect payouts?

I have been mining for 3 weeks and have received nothing as of this morning.....

They're usually every Monday at ~2PM PDT.  You should probably contact Mike directly to make sure they've got the right payment address.

[yochdog]

When can we expect payouts?

I have been mining for 3 weeks and have received nothing as of this morning.....

They're usually every Monday at ~2PM PDT.  You should probably contact Mike directly to make sure they've got the right payment address.

Thanks for the info....

I will wait until later today.  Perhaps my balance was not large enough the last couple weeks.....I just recently started with real power. 

[area]

When can we expect payouts?

I have been mining for 3 weeks and have received nothing as of this morning.....

They're usually every Monday at ~2PM PDT.  You should probably contact Mike directly to make sure they've got the right payment address.

Thanks for the info....

I will wait until later today.  Perhaps my balance was not large enough the last couple weeks.....I just recently started with real power. 

FWIW, I'm in the same boat - three weeks and no payouts yet...

[jamesg]

Hi Coinlab,

I am running 51Gh/s. on your server and have been for the last week. Your 30 minute trailing average calculation is showing that I am running between 18-19Gh/s. Hopefully this is something simple that can be corrected.

Best,
gigavps

[CoinLab]

When can we expect payouts?

I have been mining for 3 weeks and have received nothing as of this morning.....

They're usually every Monday at ~2PM PDT.  You should probably contact Mike directly to make sure they've got the right payment address.

Thanks for the info....

I will wait until later today.  Perhaps my balance was not large enough the last couple weeks.....I just recently started with real power.  

FWIW, I'm in the same boat - three weeks and no payouts yet...

Area and Yochdog, both of you had earned less than 1 BTC your first week, so you balance was carried over.  Both of you have now earned over 1BTC, so you'll both be getting payouts in a bit with your first two weeks of earnings.

If you have another week with under 1BTC earnings and you'd like me to process a special payout for you, send me an email and I'll try to get you your BTC ASAP (but it may take until the next business day).

[yochdog]

When can we expect payouts?

I have been mining for 3 weeks and have received nothing as of this morning.....

They're usually every Monday at ~2PM PDT.  You should probably contact Mike directly to make sure they've got the right payment address.

Thanks for the info....

I will wait until later today.  Perhaps my balance was not large enough the last couple weeks.....I just recently started with real power.  

FWIW, I'm in the same boat - three weeks and no payouts yet...

Area and Yochdog, both of you had earned less than 1 BTC your first week, so you balance was carried over.  Both of you have now earned over 1BTC, so you'll both be getting payouts in a bit with your first two weeks of earnings.

If you have another week with under 1BTC earnings and you'd like me to process a special payout for you, send me an email and I'll try to get you your BTC ASAP (but it may take until the next business day).

Thanks dude!

I kind of figured it was something like that, and appreciate the clarification. 

Love the reliability of the pool and the low stales.  Bravo. 

[CoinLab]

Hello Miners!

Monday Payouts have been sent. Everyone who has a balance over 1BTC for the week of 9/16 has been paid out.  If your balance is below 1BTC and you'd like a payout, email or PM me.

You'll notice that its now easier to understand payouts - your payments will be equal to this weeks earnings in the web interface (because we're now paying out over the same period measured on the web interface).

This week, we'll continue working on pool optimizations (including hashrate estimate), multiple workers per account, and automated payouts.  We'll keep you posted as these features get closer to being ready to go live!

[Nancarrow]

Been back at Coinlab for a couple of days now, and this time, the pool communication is rock solid. Thanks for doing whatever it is you did!

[kdf]

Has anyone else had a significant increase in rejected shares starting about 8 hours ago or so?

Thanks

[kdf]

The increase in rejected shares has returned to normal. 

thank you for what ever you did!!

[ShadesOfMarble]

When are payments for week 2012-09-23 processed?

[CoinLab]

When are payments for week 2012-09-23 processed?

Payouts for 2012-09-23 are going out today.

[CoinLab]

Payouts for the week of 2012-9-23 have been sent out.

If your balance is less than 1BTC, it will be carried over to next week.  If you need it sooner, send me a withdrawal request.

Thanks miners!

Chris

[CoinLab]

We now have an automatic sign-up process! 

To sign up for our 95% Protected Pool, go here:
http://pool.coinlab.com/partners/protected/sign-up

To sign up for our 98% PPS pool (no Loyalty Points), go here:
http://pool.coinlab.com/partners/ppspool/sign-up