--ANNOUNCEMENT--We have officially
setup a failover for our pool! This means
NO MORE DOWNTIME! The way it works is as follows...
I have purchased a service that constantly monitors the pool IP address with 8 different addresses. It checks constantly for a reply to port 80. If for any reason the server doesn't reply, it will automatically failover to a backup server we have running with a clone of the pool. Now, there are still a few things to consider here...
1.
The miner doesn't automatically ping to check for IP changes, so until the devs implement that into the miner, I would suggest setting up some sort of
restart script for your miners, so that they restart themselves every hour or so, that way the max amount of time down will be an hour, or less, however you set it up. You can PM me for a script.
2. This means that
our pool will NEVER be down again! This is the first pool to have something like this, and we will continue to add more and more features and assets to benefit our miners!
3. If the main pool IP doesn't reply to checks, and it switches to the backup pool, we have to make a change in the pool config to allow for payouts. So just know, that if you don't see payouts when on the backup pool, don't worry. We will either make the change to the backup to allow for auto payments, or when the main pool comes back, the payments will start up again automatically.
4.
ALL MINERS NEED TO CHANGE THE ADDRESS THE MINERS ARE POINTING TO! The new address for mining is
http://burst.ga:8124 , this domain is the one we decided to setup the new failover service on, as opposed to messing with our current domain's DNS settings.
So, if you point to burst.ga, this is the new auto-failover setup. If you decide not to change, then you will not be part of the auto failover. The pool will stay at the original address, it's just the
new burst.ga address that will do the auto-failover.5. I am hoping to get quite a bit of cloud scrypt power here in a few days, and when I do, I will likely be using that power to setup a new asset. I will keep everyone updated on this. Our original asset is still there, and we still have extra power mining to the asset account, and on the pool.
Thanks everyone, and happy mining! Also, just so that everyone knows.
I am still doing my giveaway for pointing your miner to our pool. 1500 burst per new miner in stats on BURST.GA!!!I will also be doing another giveaway soon, stay tuned!!
Oh, one more thing.
I am going to be donating 50,000 burst to the pool account at a random point within the next day or two, this means that
whoever is mining on the pool will get payout from this donation, as an AWESOME BONUS!!! We're trying to win back the
love of our miners,
and we feel that honesty, assistance, active owners, and a FAILOVER SETUP, is a GREAT WAY! Thank you all!
