The mining software is actually running on the KNCminer device itself. I'm not sure how to go about installing cgwatcher onto the machine. It's been running over 12 hours smoothly. I have a ping set on it to email me if anything happens. to either machine.
If you guys hear of others installing cgwatcher onto the actual unit successfully, please let me know and provide instructions. I really don't like to be the guinea pig.
I'll also look into how to go about setting up a secondary pool in case the first one fails. The software that comes with kncminer doesn't offer many options.
I looked at bitparking.com and they just recently encountered some DDOS and since things are running so smoothly at the moment with btcguild and it does offer NMC merge mining. I'll keep it there at this time.
"2013-10-06: The pool has been suffering a DDoS attack over the last 24 hours and service has been intermittent. I'm working with my service provider to resolve the issue."
I'll wait til things settle down at bitparking.com before making it the primary pool.
Charles
First of all, thank you Charles999 for your effort in making the miner work as quick as possible. Every hour of machine operating now will worth days in the future as competition will skyrocket.
As I suggested you, and I would like the other members to comment on this, we have to choose the best pool.
I suggest
bitparking because it is merged with namecoin, ixcoin, i0coin, groupcoin and devcoin. That mean that we mine and get bitcoin as normal plus others SHA256 coins at the same time. Theses coins are very cheap (some not even yet listed on exchange) but if you add them all and price them well it can add between 3% to 6% (maybe more) to our revenues which cannot be neglected.
We should let the most skilled trader of the group exchange theses altcoins to make the best profit.
We also need a watcher like
CGWatcher well setup.
It can restart the mining software, restart the operating sytem, it monitor and make statistic (we could all access to it) but more important, it switch to other mining pool when it's down and go back to it when it's up.
The watcher can do a lot of stuff but the main goal is to reduce the downtime. Every few minutes we save everyday will make a big difference after few months.
From 200 to 285, I think that's more than enough...maybe flash the new firmware once there's a stable release out there.
