A follow up from the change I did to the main stratum node the other day:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.46326106Recap:
The stratum node is 3 servers in a round-robin so if you mine to stratum.kano.is, you randomly get one of the 3.
I replaced one of the AWSLS oregon nodes with another provider node in LosAngeles.
So now:
the old node still has about 20% of the miners on it.
i.e. about 300 miners are mining away on the old AWS node that I'm shutting down.
So to push those final miners over to one of the current 3 nodes, I'll stop it.
As before, no one needs to do anything, it will simply be a failover from the old stratum node to one of the other 3.
It will also only affect those ~300 (random) workers on stratum.kano.is
I'll do this in 1.5 hrs at 04:00 UTC so any (of the ~300 miners) that fail over due to that, you will know why.
Again it is just an immediate failover for ~300 miners, nothing more.
Another follow up about 'where' the main stratum node is.
Firstly, no one has to change anything, but if you are close to Oregon you may prefer to make the change in the details below.
I've created a new DNS name for miners that are closer to Oregon than LosAngeles:
stratum+tcp://or.kano.is:3333
The current test run is showing the new LosAngeles server as more appropriate to be stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333
however, of course, there are some who are closer to the Oregon nodes and may prefer to mine to the Oregon nodes.
Currently, stratum.kano.is still points to both the Oregon and LosAngeles nodes.
So if you mine to stratum.kano.is you will randomly connect to either.
In a week I'll change stratum.kano.is to ONLY point to LosAngeles
So over the next week, anyone mining to stratum.kano.is, who would prefer to only mine to the Oregon nodes, should change their miner Pool0 config to say "stratum+tcp://
or.kano.is:3333" instead of "stratum+tcp://
stratum.kano.is:3333"
You don't have to change anything - but if you are mining to "stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333" and your miners are closer to Oregon than LosAngeles, you may get very slightly lower stales if you mine to "stratum+tcp://or.kano.is:3333"
Mine on!