Ryan, plz don't jump to any conclusions, poolerino have backups, but as you know, recovering from a loss of hard drive is a slow and painful process, if you lose an HD but can get the data out of it, it can take hours, if not days sometimes. but they did had backup if i recall Mike's statement. as for a redundant server, that's a question of budget and designing a disaster recovery properly. and i'm sure the guys at poolerino did at least two of the three (backup, redundant server, disaster recovery). it's not their day job handling that pool.
BTW, I'm not affiliate with them at all. it just disturbs me that you try to advertize your pool on the expense of their misfortune. even if you are not doing this by intent.
Sorry if I offended anyone.. that's not my intent as you already pointed out. I just put so much work in to all this and it really makes me upset to see so many pools losing coins, money, etc. Why? Well the reason I put up this pool was to combat all the issues people were having with pools that crashed, or had corrupted databases. I spent over 2 days working without sleep to repair globalcoin when we first went up. Everyone got their coins, every last penny so I know when things go bad, it's tough.
I am a miner too. I went through the same pains of having pools "crash" "go down" and all that stuff. I know how it felt.
If poolernaino had backups, then that's great to hear! I know how frustrating it must be for all involved.
Ryan, dedicatedpool.com support/admin
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It's OK to advertise yourself, and it's more than fine to be upset about the misfortune of other pool owners. but when you mix them together it comes out a bit wrong. most of us here who read the posts already know how much hard work you had to put into your pool. as you mentioned it in one of your previous posts, so that's pretty much appreciated AND redundant. instead, maybe a better idea would be to try and assist in some way to those other pool operators in designing a better, resistant and stable pool. we all here as a community need the hashrate to go
UP. we need the coin to reach a certain difficulty level, at the current rate, if there will be too much of it too soon, it will lose value because there will be more coins than demand. and then we all here, pool operators included, lose.
I know it's kinda counter-intuitive paradigm to a competitive pro like yourself. but we are still small enough to let blows like the poolerino and hacshard crashes to pull us down. and that's not good, not right now. thanks in advance for reading and understanding this situation.
