A n00b guide on starting a mining pool?

Damnsammit

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Quote from: Graet on July 16, 2013, 10:29:09 PM

Simplecoin or mmfce are opensource front ends, stratum is a solid back end although pushpool still works with most alt coins.
you just got more help to set up your pool than I did with mine

don't expect to "set and forget" a pool - it is a 24/7 job if you want to do it well
and you or your mate had better be really good at securing websites, attacks and hacking attempts are just about daily occurences for pools

Thanks for this info! I don't know how good he is at it, but I know he is better than me at it since IT is his profession.

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Quote from: eleuthria on July 16, 2013, 08:04:00 PM

Quote from: frankenmint on July 16, 2013, 06:54:32 PM

Quote from: PatMan on July 16, 2013, 06:50:08 PM

Not very helpful.

Many people have started their own pool from scratch by asking around on this forum - that's what a forum is for - getting help. Nobody knows anything until they ask, that's how knowledge is obtained. I suggest you keep asking around the forums, amongst the nay-sayers you will get some very good advice - good luck.

I would beg to differ - a vast majority of pool operators are simply doing their own offshoot version of the p2pool api.

Maybe if you're including "p2pools", but most actual pools are running custom frontends, not counting the huge number of abandoned/insignificantly small pools which are running the open source pushpool frontend from late 2011.

agreed

Simplecoin or mmfce are opensource front ends, stratum is a solid back end although pushpool still works with most alt coins.
you just got more help to set up your pool than I did with mine

don't expect to "set and forget" a pool - it is a 24/7 job if you want to do it well
and you or your mate had better be really good at securing websites, attacks and hacking attempts are just about daily occurences for pools

eleuthria

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Quote from: frankenmint on July 16, 2013, 06:54:32 PM

Quote from: PatMan on July 16, 2013, 06:50:08 PM

Not very helpful.

Many people have started their own pool from scratch by asking around on this forum - that's what a forum is for - getting help. Nobody knows anything until they ask, that's how knowledge is obtained. I suggest you keep asking around the forums, amongst the nay-sayers you will get some very good advice - good luck.

I would beg to differ - a vast majority of pool operators are simply doing their own offshoot version of the p2pool api.

Maybe if you're including "p2pools", but most actual pools are running custom frontends, not counting the huge number of abandoned/insignificantly small pools which are running the open source pushpool frontend from late 2011.

Damnsammit

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Quote from: frankenmint on July 16, 2013, 06:54:32 PM

Quote from: PatMan on July 16, 2013, 06:50:08 PM

Not very helpful.

Many people have started their own pool from scratch by asking around on this forum - that's what a forum is for - getting help. Nobody knows anything until they ask, that's how knowledge is obtained. I suggest you keep asking around the forums, amongst the nay-sayers you will get some very good advice - good luck.

I would beg to differ - a vast majority of pool operators are simply doing their own offshoot version of the p2pool api.

Is that why a lot of the pools look alike?

I'm looking to open one for an alt-coin that I think has potential, but I need to find out some of the information before approaching my friend about it.

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Quote from: PatMan on July 16, 2013, 06:50:08 PM

Not very helpful.

Many people have started their own pool from scratch by asking around on this forum - that's what a forum is for - getting help. Nobody knows anything until they ask, that's how knowledge is obtained. I suggest you keep asking around the forums, amongst the nay-sayers you will get some very good advice - good luck.

I would beg to differ - a vast majority of pool operators are simply doing their own offshoot version of the p2pool api.

PatMan

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Watch out for the "Neg-Rep-Dogie-Police".....

Not very helpful.

Many people have started their own pool from scratch by asking around on this forum - that's what a forum is for - getting help. Nobody knows anything until they ask, that's how knowledge is obtained. I suggest you keep asking around the forums, amongst the nay-sayers you will get some very good advice - good luck.

HellDiverUK

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Check out: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2544346 - very good advice by maq in that post.

Particularly the "if you have to ask where to start, running a pool it probably isn't for you" part.

Damnsammit

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One of my friends is a web developer and I want to get some good information on this to approach him with.

I have absolutely no clue how hard it is to set one up and maintain, but it seems like knowledge that I want...

Yes I've already Googled but it just keeps bringing up general mining information and not the set-up of the pool website.

Where to begin? Any good links? Thanks in advance.

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