Topic: How To Mine Protoshares/Primcoins With Amazon E2 Server The Right Way! - page 2. (Read 7840 times)

Update:

Now started work on Primecoin mining version with more clear instructions!

As  my friend clintar mentioned above to make it so you dont been to keep the puttys open. Other guides are worse, most miners get confused with the setup process so this explains everything from the code to the sign up to the request spot and also says to use i7core miner on pts witch will give you 300 or so more coll/m on pts meaning instead of sitting in the 5 like i keep getting told by members of ypool you sit in the 800 and 900. I even hit 1100 at one point. Therefore I would say my tutorial is better. Ill be adding the code below to the tutorial shortly as tips and tricks, still hope you enjoyed the read!

In before newbies realize that their instances stop mining when thet close their putty thereby ending the ssh session

To prevent miner from stopping with ssh session ending, use screen or equivalent, or just create a cron job and restart ur instance.

Hope im not too late, before newbies realize instances have been doing nothing for 19 hours

Fyi, the other guide is better, just that there are no screenshots

Login to to ypool chat and talk to tandyuk in there he can help you and so can the admins!

tried that, no luck

Its mostly the same till you get to the linux terminal. Then you need to do this instead https://github.com/tandyuk/jhPrimeminer/blob/master/README.md

Thanks so much for these instructions!  I can't wait to give it a try.

I second this. Would love to see/donate to see this.

Could you make a copy + past text to use in with jhprimeminer?

Same here, first I got 'price-too-low' at 0.29 and 0.3 then when I set to to 0.31 it cycles between pending fulfillment back to pending evaluation.

EDIT: I switched the location to North Virginia and it let me post a 0.29 bid, I'm stuck on on pending fulfilment will let you know if they deploy.

UPDATE

Yep that did the trick got 4 instances active now!

Here's some more tips for creating instances. I would start by creating one instance, and set it to launch the miner when it boots. after you get the instance running, and extract the miner (the wget and tar commands), do this

then at the bottom of the file, paste this line into your putty


replacing my worker name if you want  
this will start the miner when the instance is booted.
then back in the aws console, right click on your instance select create image.
name it something, and un-check delete on termination. (this turned off my instance while it made the image, even though I told it not to reboot, but it came back online after.)

once that's done, you can go to AMIs on the left of the aws console, and there will be an image. click on it and click launch, go through each step of the wizard and make sure to
select Request Spot Instances again, and set the number to 19 (assuming you are currently running one), and select Persistent request and poof, 19 instances will launch and start mining when they are fulfilled.
Even if they get terminated, they will be re-created when the price comes down. You can use these instructions for the xpm mining, too. just make sure to start the path to the miner as /home/ec2-user/[miner_directory]/jhprimeminer or whatever you're running.

Also, once your free trial runs out or you want a more permanent solution that's a bit cheaper, especially once this becomes widely known, try these guys https://crm.datasoft.ws/aff.php?aff=266 (that's my referral ID, yeah). the 24 core 12G at https://crm.datasoft.ws/ds_plusdedicated.php (middle one). And make sure to request Centos (not sure if any others are good, but do NOT do Ubuntu) is $.095/h for 375 col/m. Their tech support isn't very good, though. You have to do pretty much everything through email or creating a support ticket on the web site. You can use the same instructions here, but you will probably log in as root, so make sure to use /root instead of /home/ec2-user at the beginning of the line you add to /etc/rc.local

It keep going from pending fulfillment back to pending evaluation, and back.  Never goes green

Thats a bit high i try to get under 0.30

CC is good, and i made it for .35, weird

If they dont change for 5 or 10 mins bid is to low or credit card is invalid so check the credit card by going to account top right and then billing and then payment method, if all is good cancel the spot requests and got refile for some more and up your bid by a cent at a time, also in the top left you will see the region your in oregon, etc. you can also try N. Virginia it seems to be on equal ground

How long until the instances change from pending fullfillment until they go green?  Its been 20 minutes.

@HCarvalho can take 10 mins - 2 hours to recieve code
@Conurtrol Doubt it but try and report back
@cryptomining glad you liked

If you did use my tutorial to mine a donation would be very kind once you mined some coin

nice post, thanks!

So you can't just paste the code into the advanced details box when you are setting up the instances?

the tutorial is the exact order you should do and see things, and as for the code copy it all and paste it in one go it will do all commands and putty is a must for the ssh connection.