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Quote from: Steamtyme on July 28, 2019, 09:08:11 PM

This here would be your best source for finding a hosting facility - Crypto Mining H/W Hosting Directory & Reputation

The S9's have had life brought back to them for the time being. They have a LP firmware available so if you bought these relatively cheap you might be able to become profitable. The problem with going this route at this time is shipping costs and potentially setup costs. This might negate the chance of profits because the S9 is already borderline for profits. Not sure what your power costs are at home but I would personally get these set up an mining today. Whether you want to solo it for a lottery or go with a pool and accumulate some guaranteed rewards; you have some research and decisions to make. You may want to check around the mining boards for more advice if you plan to keep them at home. Another bonus is in the winter you can run them at home to assist with the heating if you keep them on hand.

Here's some general reference than some more specific S9 related threads.
First time/Small miner reference for getting started.
main S9 thread
What to do with all the old s-9s. This is geared to making them a space heater - but by ignoring some of the mods and running 1 or 2 boards you can make the S9's work for your basement.

Thanks for this! I will check out your helpful links tomorrow!

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This here would be your best source for finding a hosting facility - Crypto Mining H/W Hosting Directory & Reputation

The S9's have had life brought back to them for the time being. They have a LP firmware available so if you bought these relatively cheap you might be able to become profitable. The problem with going this route at this time is shipping costs and potentially setup costs. This might negate the chance of profits because the S9 is already borderline for profits. Not sure what your power costs are at home but I would personally get these set up and mining today. Whether you want to solo it for a lottery or go with a pool and accumulate some guaranteed rewards; you have some research and decisions to make. You may want to check around the mining boards for more advice if you plan to keep them at home. Another bonus is in the winter you can run them at home to assist with the heating if you keep them on hand.

Here's some general reference then some more specific S9 related threads.
First time/Small miner reference for getting started.
main S9 thread
What to do with all the old s-9s. This is geared to making them a space heater - but by ignoring some of the mods and running 1 or 2 boards you can make the S9's work for your basement.

sarahsmithe

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Thanks for the informative replies! I guess right now our issue is we have a couple S9's that we want to use in a solo lottery pool. We'll probably just run the one. We're looking at running them from our basement but a colo would be best I feel. If there aren't colo's that do just 1 or 2 devices, then I guess we'll continue to look at the basement idea.

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Quote from: timerland on July 28, 2019, 05:45:55 AM

I don't think investing money into 1 miner will be profitable, a month back when I was doing research for a mini rig of myself, I realized it would very unlikely to make any profit from mining in a pool unless you have a large range of miners.

It might not be extremely profitable, but if he connects to a pool that generates a decent number of blocks per day, and keeps the cost of running low, he may be getting a marginal profit which for most people probably isn't worth it, but for OP it might be. Some people mine to hold for a longer period of time because they expect a significant increase and don't mind the lower initial rewards.

The thing that people who are starting with mining tend to underestimate is how they don't factor in how hard the difficulty can increase, and that over the long term, it has always a bias to the up side. If you keep running the same one or two miners without adding any new miners, it's going to be a penny game that you will lose.

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I don't think investing money into 1 miner will be profitable, a month back when I was doing research for a mini rig of myself, I realized it would very unlikely to make any profit from mining in a pool unless you have a large range of miners.

Where are you located? My country has fairly expensive electricity, but if you are able to acquire electricity for a lower cost, you might be able to turn a profit, but with a single miner, no host will accept you unless you overpay for their services.

Also, please don't look at cloud mining services or miningrigrentals, etc. They may look good theoretically as one of their options but trust me. If they were actually profitable they wouldn't be renting the already hooked up rigs themselves.

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Quote from: sarahsmithe on July 27, 2019, 06:00:30 PM

Hi Everyone!

Can someone please recommend a host for a S9 that isn't too expensive. The few hosts I've talked to have pretty big minimums like 25 to 50 units. I'm just looking for a colo that can take one, maybe two, S9's. Thanks!

Most mining hosting websites offer hosting services only to those with 5, maybe 10 or more miners. The question would be where are you situated? There are some data centers that can actually be asked to host your mining gear in exchange of some fee, of course, though again that depends on where you are at the map. There are countless hosting services such as the likes of TeslaWatt, Oregon Mines, GigaWatt just to name a few. A quick skim at their offerings made me realize that GigaWatt is one of the most (if not the) economical as they charge per kW/h and not per device hosted in their facility.

sarahsmithe

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Hi Everyone!

Can someone please recommend a host for a S9 that isn't too expensive. The few hosts I've talked to have pretty big minimums like 25 to 50 units. I'm just looking for a colo that can take one, maybe two, S9's. Thanks!

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