Topic: [ANN][FeatherCoin][Stratum] FC.GETCOINAGE.COM - New Stratum Only Pool - page 4. (Read 5795 times)
April 23, 2013, 03:49:57 PM
Rooking good! Thanks!
April 23, 2013, 03:33:28 PM
giving this pool a try, looks great so far 
April 23, 2013, 03:33:13 PM
Just added my 6400 KH to your pool, hopefully it runs well
April 23, 2013, 02:39:00 PM
Hello!!!
I've just set up a new Stratum Only pool at:
http://fc.getcoinage.com
Example connection via cgminer:
It's fairly basic "cookie-cutter" web interface for now, but I have plans on enhancing it and even developing a mobile version so you can keep tabs on your "minions", hash rates, etc from a phone/tablet.
Pool fee is 2.5% to help pay for server & maintenance.
I've personally used it for a bit now and have not run into any issues(even found 2 blocks while testing the final production setup!!!).
Have fun and enjoy!
UPDATE: 4/25/2013 - 8:25AM CDT
I've decided to go ahead and close the pool. It's been almost 4 hours since the last block found, which even with the current hashrate in the 20MH/s we should have found a block a while ago. I haven't been able to locate what may be causing this. I don't want to waste everyone's mining resources when it could be thrown at another pool.
Within the next 15 - 30 minutes the Stratum services will be turned off on the servers. Web Front-End and scripts will still be active to allow the last found block to be credited to miner accounts. After last block is credited, I will perform manual payouts. If you do not have your payout address entered, I will leave the interface up for a few days to allow you to enter your address and perform a manual payout yourself.
Thank you to the miners who joined and used the pool. This has been a learning experience for me and I hope to still be able to contribute to the Crypto-Coin community however I can. As promised, I will try to at least provide the working Stratum server files I had. I will try to get a github site set up to fork slush0's stratum-mining project and publish the modifications to make it work for scrypt based coins. It may take me a bit as I've never really used github before other then to clone and build projects made available by others.
Thanks again, and happy mining!
-Toast
4/24/2013 - UPDATE 4
I'm not sure why, but something isn't sitting quite right. We should be getting blocks more often, but for some reason we aren't. For a while, at one point the pool was in the mid 50 MH/s area which should have netted us a block roughly every 30 minutes, but even then most of the time it seemed to take at least an hour. Occasionally we'd get lucky and find a block 10-15 minutes after the last one, but the average just doesn't add up right with the hashing power the pool was putting out.
As someone pointed out in this thread, the Hashrate calculation on the Web Front-End appears to be slightly off, but it isn't THAT far off. I don't feel too comfortable letting this pool continue to run at the risk of wasting everyone's time... don't need a bunch of upset people at me!
However, I will continue to let the pool run for now as well as continue to poke at the logs and see if I can figure out what's going on, but so far I haven't seen anything sticking out. It isn't a server load issue either as both the FC and POOL1 servers are sitting at very good usage levels right now (even though there are still some people using the FC server to connect their miners too). If people feel they need to leave because they don't want to stick around, I completely understand.
I'm torn I guess because I honestly don't want to waste peoples time, but I also hate to give up, especially since this is all so close and I've learned so much getting this pool set up!
If for some reason I do close the pool down, I'll be sure to disable the Stratum services but leave the Web Front-End up and the background scripts running until all blocks are confirmed and final payouts take place... I'm not out to con anyone any coins as that is not why I set this pool up. It was set up to fill a need that existed at the time... I just wish it still did, lol.
-Toast
4/24/2013 - UPDATE 3
Alrighty, I've got the POOL1.GETCOINAGE.COM server up and running and have been using it myself to mine. I'm getting ACCEPTED shares which are being captured and reported by the Web Front-End.
If you want to start swapping your miners over to this new server at let me know how it goes, that would be great! In the meantime I will continue to keep the FC.GETCOINAGE.COM server's Stratum services running until everyone swaps over... at least for a bit. If after no issues after a while(maybe a day or two at most), I will then shut off the Stratum Services on the FC server.
As always, thanks again for your patience and happy mining!
-Toast
4/24/2013 - UPDATE 2
There was a brief outage a few moments ago, and I'm VERY sorry about this! I restarted the Database services and wasn't aware that Stratum was then complaining. As soon as I noticed this I restarted Stratum and am now seeing everything return to normal.
The reason I had to restart the Database services was to prep to the new Pool server... which is set up and I'm now testing. I will provide another update once I've monitored the new Pool server and feel confident it works as intended.
Once again I'm VERY sorry!
-Toast
UPDATE: 4/24/2013
So far so good! I've noticed the load on the server getting a tad higher then what I'd like. I haven't heard of any complaints yet on higher then normal reject rates, but I'd like to take care of this before it becomes an issue.
With that in mind, I'm planning to spin up another server to be used solely as the the "Pool Server", while the current server will still be used to host the Web Front-end and Database. I'm going the route of using two servers instead of just using a single larger server so that the transition takes place a little smoother and also allows for further expansion down the road. This means I could spin up another Pool Server if needed without creating any downtime.
So, in short, it would work like this:
Miners will keep mining on FC.GETCOINAGE.COM for now. When I have the dedicated Pool Server spun up and tested, miners can transition over to POOL1.GETCOINAGE.COM as users log in and notice the notification about the new Pool Server being ready. Stratum will still run on the original FC server for a few days to allow users to make the switch. After a few days have passed, Stratum will be disabled on the FC server thus making POOL1 the primary and only Stratum Server (for now).
-Toast
I've just set up a new Stratum Only pool at:
http://fc.getcoinage.com
Example connection via cgminer:
Quote
cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool1.getcoinage.com:3333 -u your_user_name.1 -p x
It's fairly basic "cookie-cutter" web interface for now, but I have plans on enhancing it and even developing a mobile version so you can keep tabs on your "minions", hash rates, etc from a phone/tablet.
Pool fee is 2.5% to help pay for server & maintenance.
I've personally used it for a bit now and have not run into any issues(even found 2 blocks while testing the final production setup!!!).
Have fun and enjoy!
UPDATE: 4/25/2013 - 8:25AM CDT
I've decided to go ahead and close the pool. It's been almost 4 hours since the last block found, which even with the current hashrate in the 20MH/s we should have found a block a while ago. I haven't been able to locate what may be causing this. I don't want to waste everyone's mining resources when it could be thrown at another pool.
Within the next 15 - 30 minutes the Stratum services will be turned off on the servers. Web Front-End and scripts will still be active to allow the last found block to be credited to miner accounts. After last block is credited, I will perform manual payouts. If you do not have your payout address entered, I will leave the interface up for a few days to allow you to enter your address and perform a manual payout yourself.
Thank you to the miners who joined and used the pool. This has been a learning experience for me and I hope to still be able to contribute to the Crypto-Coin community however I can. As promised, I will try to at least provide the working Stratum server files I had. I will try to get a github site set up to fork slush0's stratum-mining project and publish the modifications to make it work for scrypt based coins. It may take me a bit as I've never really used github before other then to clone and build projects made available by others.
Thanks again, and happy mining!
-Toast
4/24/2013 - UPDATE 4
I'm not sure why, but something isn't sitting quite right. We should be getting blocks more often, but for some reason we aren't. For a while, at one point the pool was in the mid 50 MH/s area which should have netted us a block roughly every 30 minutes, but even then most of the time it seemed to take at least an hour. Occasionally we'd get lucky and find a block 10-15 minutes after the last one, but the average just doesn't add up right with the hashing power the pool was putting out.
As someone pointed out in this thread, the Hashrate calculation on the Web Front-End appears to be slightly off, but it isn't THAT far off. I don't feel too comfortable letting this pool continue to run at the risk of wasting everyone's time... don't need a bunch of upset people at me!
However, I will continue to let the pool run for now as well as continue to poke at the logs and see if I can figure out what's going on, but so far I haven't seen anything sticking out. It isn't a server load issue either as both the FC and POOL1 servers are sitting at very good usage levels right now (even though there are still some people using the FC server to connect their miners too). If people feel they need to leave because they don't want to stick around, I completely understand.
I'm torn I guess because I honestly don't want to waste peoples time, but I also hate to give up, especially since this is all so close and I've learned so much getting this pool set up!
If for some reason I do close the pool down, I'll be sure to disable the Stratum services but leave the Web Front-End up and the background scripts running until all blocks are confirmed and final payouts take place... I'm not out to con anyone any coins as that is not why I set this pool up. It was set up to fill a need that existed at the time... I just wish it still did, lol.
-Toast
4/24/2013 - UPDATE 3
Alrighty, I've got the POOL1.GETCOINAGE.COM server up and running and have been using it myself to mine. I'm getting ACCEPTED shares which are being captured and reported by the Web Front-End.
If you want to start swapping your miners over to this new server at let me know how it goes, that would be great! In the meantime I will continue to keep the FC.GETCOINAGE.COM server's Stratum services running until everyone swaps over... at least for a bit. If after no issues after a while(maybe a day or two at most), I will then shut off the Stratum Services on the FC server.
As always, thanks again for your patience and happy mining!
-Toast
4/24/2013 - UPDATE 2
There was a brief outage a few moments ago, and I'm VERY sorry about this! I restarted the Database services and wasn't aware that Stratum was then complaining. As soon as I noticed this I restarted Stratum and am now seeing everything return to normal.
The reason I had to restart the Database services was to prep to the new Pool server... which is set up and I'm now testing. I will provide another update once I've monitored the new Pool server and feel confident it works as intended.
Once again I'm VERY sorry!
-Toast
UPDATE: 4/24/2013
So far so good! I've noticed the load on the server getting a tad higher then what I'd like. I haven't heard of any complaints yet on higher then normal reject rates, but I'd like to take care of this before it becomes an issue.
With that in mind, I'm planning to spin up another server to be used solely as the the "Pool Server", while the current server will still be used to host the Web Front-end and Database. I'm going the route of using two servers instead of just using a single larger server so that the transition takes place a little smoother and also allows for further expansion down the road. This means I could spin up another Pool Server if needed without creating any downtime.
So, in short, it would work like this:
Miners will keep mining on FC.GETCOINAGE.COM for now. When I have the dedicated Pool Server spun up and tested, miners can transition over to POOL1.GETCOINAGE.COM as users log in and notice the notification about the new Pool Server being ready. Stratum will still run on the original FC server for a few days to allow users to make the switch. After a few days have passed, Stratum will be disabled on the FC server thus making POOL1 the primary and only Stratum Server (for now).
-Toast
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