Which Mining Pool?

[OldChap]

It has been intimated that some pools are better than others although provided that there are no delays or downtime I cannot see why this would be...

So, In the interest of making sure that we all have the most XSsive performance.... how about individuals post some numbers here for their different pools.

Probably best if you can mention card(s) and hashrate and maybe come back and edit/add as the days go by

for example in the past 14 hours since I noted my totals as a baseline

On UK.BTC Guild I Have made 0.193365 coins with 1 5870 @ 900 and 387Mhash/sec

On Bitcoin.lc I Have made 0.397586 coins with 1 5870 @ 900 and 387Mhash/sec

I am aware that due to the nature of the work it may take time to get the averages to make sense and maybe some further effort to factor in the MHash/sec per day rate but I think this might be worth doing

Update: 1st 24 hours I will do this for 3 days

BTC Guild = 0.36641148 which equates to 1057 Mhash/sec per coin based on the hash rate reported by my card

Bitcoin.lc = 0.66127953 which equates to 586 Mhash/sec per coin

Update: after missing a day due to hardware issues here are the numbers for day 2(3)

BTC Guild = 0.26265839

Bitcoin.lc = 0.35632009

The last day I will do this is today till Midnight BST...

BTC Guild =0.41223504

Bitcoin.lc = 0.49926559

[ggdh]

I'm with deepbit from the beginning, but they charge too much. I was trying to switch to btcmine, but recently they have closed registration of new members...

I will give it a tray with bitcoin.lc

[s0lid]

Any interest for closed crunchers only pool?
Technically quite easily achieveable and there's couple open source mining pool servers.

[BeepBeep2]

BTC Guild is nice, no fees, large pool = paid fast...in small amounts but quickly, amounts start to show up.
I am with BitCoinPool, no fees, but they ban pretty much any user without more than 70% efficiency meaning ATI + poclbm-mod and phoenix only or you are banned. Our speed isn't that great either, sometimes we get a round that is 18-20 hours long, others are just an hour...average is about 7-8 hours for us

In the end they will all pay out about the same.

To get .387 BTC with Bitcoin.lc in 14 hours? The pool got lucky and you reaped the rewards. 387 Mhash/s on average will get you a little less than .2 BTC over 14 hours. Considering BTC Guild is very large and consistent (due to stupidly high processing power) you got what you were supposed to get.

[p2501]

Any interest for closed crunchers only pool?
Technically quite easily achieveable and there's couple open source mining pool servers.

Folders allowed also?!

Nice idea, but the one who sets up the server would also need to be pretty knowledgeable about securing a Linux server to the point where no breakins or DDoS attacks will pose a thread to the users rewards... kinda time consuming, don't you think?!

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. Then we not only will crunch/fold them to the ground, but also mine them t. t. g. =)

[s0lid]

Well i've no idea about the exact details who we will inv etc if the project ever gets goin.

Well getting linux server secure is quite easy task, when talking about closed group solution (address/accounts/pws known by few ppl). If we've static ip in our use there's no need to register a domain (adds little bit of security).
I believe well configured pfsense box between interwebs and server should be enough to keep outsiders away.

Weekly backups from OS and hourly from pool data to external backup server (ZFS with Deduplication = you can make tons of Backups with really no space loss) should keep the data safe and sound :P

Edit: I may not be a security expert but i'm darn sure that we've atleast one linux/security guru in our humble crunching team.

[p2501]

Sounds solid IMO.. I'd certainly be a fan of an XS pool. Since in the end pool size don't seem to matter much it's ok if we don't reach stellar GHash numbers..

ZFS on Linux, has it gone native by now?!

[s0lid]

Nah newest ZFS packages are Solaris only for now.

Well since the backup server should be totally different server from pool server we could use Solaris 11 / OpenIndiana there which has been proven a good OS for fileserver by hardforum community.

[OldChap]

Updated first post with day 1 result

Had to stop the test...found 1 rig shut down today...lost 8 hours. Boots into windows and will run for some seconds or up to half an hour then shuts down like when overheating but temps seem ok. Will move that card over later and then we will see....

EDIT: Just found this on BTC Guild

[kjeldoran]

With 250Mhash/s I was getting .3BTC per day at BTC Guild. Deepbit was a bit less. Bitclockers started out great (.6BTC per day), but we hit some long blocks which put my rate at .17BTC per day. I switched to BTCguild after bitclockers and it was going well, but because of the server issues yesterday I swapped to Bitcoins.lc this morning. Let's hope it goes well .

[amdsempron_xs]

Anyone here with Mt. Red?

I'm with Bitcoins.lc now and happy with it. Just curious about Mt. Red as a backup plan?

[OldChap]

BTC Guild changed one of their servers again.... If you were on the UK one, change to nl2.btcguild.com

[Jen]

BTC Guild changed one of their servers again.... If you were on the UK one, change to nl2.btcguild.com

is port the same 8332 ? as i cant connect to that one but all the rest i can

Jen

[[XC] gomeler]

I'd be interested in a private XS pool.

On BTCGuild I earned 2.89BTC with 2300MH/s in the last 24hr according to their stats. Not sure if this includes unconfirmed BTC.

[OldChap]

is port the same 8332 ? as i cant connect to that one but all the rest i can

Jen

There is no info to the contrary... just this: "NL2 server put up in place of UK. Not specifying a server points to NL2 now. US Central is highly recommended!" US.central is lightly loaded see here: http://www.btcguild.com/how_to_connect.php

[Jen]

There is no info to the contrary... just this: "NL2 server put up in place of UK. Not specifying a server points to NL2 now. US Central is highly recommended!" US.central is lightly loaded see here: http://www.btcguild.com/how_to_connect.php

thank you

i also be interested a XS pool if its ever started , still waiting on parts for another mining system for basement . so nice to have a basement so i dont have to listen to the noise of this first mining system . having problems with hearing for several months and am very sensitive to noise

Jen

[INFRNL]

Would love to see our own pool as well.
Centralbtc had the highest load late last night. I tried uk because it had the smallest load and lost a few mhash/s so just went with westbtc

[[XC] gomeler]

Ok, it. Investigating this I think I can get a primitive pool up and running in a day or so on Amazon's EC2 but I'd have to figure out how to secure it and how to provide some sort of web front-end for users to interact with. If anyone else is interested in this or has already started researching please get in touch.

[ggdh]

Well, I can support you mentally

[Tom128]

It's been a long time since I ventured into the Linux/BSD world but I used to make fairly large web-based front ends on Apache using Perl and/or PHP along with MySQL. Now I use C# and MS SQL. The same deal really though. I would be more than willing to help with that, or any server side things if needed, I would just need to brush off the rust so to speak

[OldChap]

Final update of first post....anyone want to trial another pool?

[INFRNL]

I'd like to trial the XS Pool when one of you smart lads gets it together

[Blauhung]

if we get something even partially working i'll go for it. I say we also setup for donations and pool that towards prizes of some sort provided they are used to make more crunchers

[don_xvi]

Told ya!

[OldChap]

Yeah you did didn't you