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J0HN3F1V3

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Quote from: AdolfinWolf on April 04, 2017, 12:17:20 PM

Quote from: J0HN3F1V3 on April 03, 2017, 07:54:44 AM

I'm looking for some help mining on a vps,
I have some free credit on digital ocean so i was thinking of trying to mine for educational purposes.

I would like to know what coins would be good for vps mining and how to set it up.
It would have to be a cpu coin not a GPU.
And i would like to know if solo mining would be better over pool mining.

This is for educational purposes so I'm not to bothered about profitability

Any help is greatly appreciated

Have you read DigitalOcean's TOS already? I believe it is forbidden to mine, as that falls under "Excessive use of our materials" see; https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/can-i-mine-bitcoins-from-my-droplet

^^Screenshot from reddit where a user got banned for cloudmining on Digital ocean. Take care.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2cqxdh/digitalocean_locked_my_account_and_sent_me_this/

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for sharing.
I guess I'll have to find some other use for my free vps

Machine Funk

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Quote from: J0HN3F1V3 on April 03, 2017, 07:54:44 AM

I'm looking for some help mining on a vps,
I have some free credit on digital ocean so i was thinking of trying to mine for educational purposes.

I would like to know what coins would be good for vps mining and how to set it up.
It would have to be a cpu coin not a GPU.
And i would like to know if solo mining would be better over pool mining.

This is for educational purposes so I'm not to bothered about profitability

Any help is greatly appreciated

You should try x11 maybe x13 or scrypt coin ? Bip coin? Have a look at a few altcoin announcements and see what you find.
Keep in mind most vps dont allow mining. High CPU usage is not allowed

AdolfinWolf

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Quote from: Velkro on April 04, 2017, 09:03:29 PM

Quote from: kolloh on April 04, 2017, 01:30:22 PM

Yeah, I don't recommend attempting to mine on a VPS. With a VPS, you are sharing the hardware with other users and they normally set caps on the amount of resources you can use. And it simply isn't worth the time to mine with a CPU, it won't be profitable and is very slow.

Agree, mining on VPS will consume more resources that you pay for. They will kick you out and you won't earn anything worth resources and time.

I think OP clearly stated he wasn't doing it for profit, but for educational purposes. Altough that doesn't matter since you are still abusing their resources.

Velkro

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Quote from: kolloh on April 04, 2017, 01:30:22 PM

Yeah, I don't recommend attempting to mine on a VPS. With a VPS, you are sharing the hardware with other users and they normally set caps on the amount of resources you can use. And it simply isn't worth the time to mine with a CPU, it won't be profitable and is very slow.

Agree, mining on VPS will consume more resources that you pay for. They will kick you out and you won't earn anything worth resources and time.

kolloh

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Yeah, I don't recommend attempting to mine on a VPS. With a VPS, you are sharing the hardware with other users and they normally set caps on the amount of resources you can use. And it simply isn't worth the time to mine with a CPU, it won't be profitable and is very slow.

AdolfinWolf

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Quote from: J0HN3F1V3 on April 03, 2017, 07:54:44 AM

I'm looking for some help mining on a vps,
I have some free credit on digital ocean so i was thinking of trying to mine for educational purposes.

I would like to know what coins would be good for vps mining and how to set it up.
It would have to be a cpu coin not a GPU.
And i would like to know if solo mining would be better over pool mining.

This is for educational purposes so I'm not to bothered about profitability

Any help is greatly appreciated

Have you read DigitalOcean's TOS already? I believe it is forbidden to mine, as that falls under "Excessive use of our materials" see; https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/can-i-mine-bitcoins-from-my-droplet

^^Screenshot from reddit where a user got banned for cloudmining on Digital ocean. Take care.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2cqxdh/digitalocean_locked_my_account_and_sent_me_this/

mountainfero

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Using Minergate and mining either Bytecoin or Monero is probably the best option, I used to get around $0.50 a month per VPS that I had. The VPS that I used mainly cost around $3-4 per year so it wasn't worth it unless you have thousands of them.

Soylent

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I used to mine Monero with minergate when I had a lot of RDP servers at low cost but anyway it wasn't much profitabe.

J0HN3F1V3

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I'm looking for some help mining on a vps,
I have some free credit on digital ocean so i was thinking of trying to mine for educational purposes.

I would like to know what coins would be good for vps mining and how to set it up.
It would have to be a cpu coin not a GPU.
And i would like to know if solo mining would be better over pool mining.

This is for educational purposes so I'm not to bothered about profitability

Any help is greatly appreciated

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