Cool, a Canadian based pool
! I definitely shall give your pool a try.
I would appreciate any feedback.
Do you pay out from generated blocks or directly like Luke's (Eligius) pool?
Up until last round, the payouts were from generated blocks IE 120 confirmations later. However, I think I have direct payment working. We'll see if it generates direct payments on the next block and go from there. But that is the direction in which I would like to go.
Seems like a clone of Luke's (Eligius) pool, but it doesn't really matter. The more pools the better.
Eligius is an Excellent pool. I wanted to do more with notifications of downed miners though. IE when a miner is down, I want an SMS etc. Luke definitely has the payment system right though.
Now for some quick questions. Are you running this off of a dedicated connection (data center) or a shaw cable connection
? Do you have a backup server or some sort of high availability setup?
I have two servers, though only one is currently running the pool. I will either do a failover DNS setup or possibly a round-robin approach to balance the load between the two servers. For now though, I am more focused on seeing whether the system will stand up to some load other than that which I impose myself. I imagine most folks have failover setups of their own. IE if a pool fails, fallback.
Also where do you guys get the pool software from? I too would like to setup a similar type of pool for me and a bunch of friends. Any chance of sharing the software?
I am using pushpool for the backend. It is written by someone else but is free software. You can search the forums. The database and RPC stuff is custom. Though I would be happy to share it, it probably wouldn't be very useful.
