Topic: P2Pool Server List - page 13. (Read 106711 times)

Ok, here is an Australia server to add to the list.  Latest p2pool, and running two instances to minimise downtime (recent peer count dips are from testing this).

I have read about p2pmining, and I don't really get it - it even things out somehow - so I can't see that this is something I need to consider right now.

Thanks for the help Smoov and Krak

Assuming you are simply intending to make your node open to the public...

All your guest miners have to do is use their payout address as their username in their miners. P2Pool just treats them the same as if they are mining locally, to a payout address, nothing extra needs to be done on your end.

You need to write up some custom programming, if you intend to do merge mining also, like P2Pmining does.

-- Smoov

It's completely automated already. If somebody mines on your node with their address as their username, every share they find is tagged with their payout address. The only thing you need to worry about is the fee, which basically says how many shares out of every 100 gets tagged with your address. For example, a 0.5% fee would mean that 5 random shares out of every 1,000 are yours.

I am thinking of opening my Australia p2pool server.  

How are people managing payments to third party miners - is there a way to automate this?   I know that people join the pool with their btc address, but how to calculate and distribute payouts?

check_status: Dallas, Texas::USA::http://caldari.lksmith.me:9332/::0.15%::BTC*::Ael's Pool::vedalken254 - New should now be changed to:

Dallas, Texas::USA::http://pool.p2pmining.com/::0%::BTC/Merged::p2pmining::JayCoin and vedalken254
Dallas, Texas::USA::http://ltc.p2pmining.com/::0%::LTC::p2pmining::JayCoin and vedalken254.
The original p2pmining.com entry should be removed as well.
Thanks!

Veddy
Edited for new information on the haproxy setup for BTC and LTC mining based on port 80.

I get a nice spike when PyraMining is doing upgrades, but except for the occasional failover traffic, I have no regular guest miners on my BTC one.

I have a couple regular LTC guest miners tho.

-- Smoov

same here too

same here, sometimes someone mines an hour or two or even less.

spiccioli

I also have random users form time to time.
IMO setup is easy to do so any1 can run own node and use public ones just as backup.

i suspect not

i've had one person mine at my pool for like an hr.  there's really no reason to.  you'd set up your own, I guess?

Out of curiosity, do any of the server ops here actually get considerable hashrate from this?

I remember back when I ran one for a bit it was a cause of great excitement to see my node running 2Ghash/s 

I stopped my original server :
London::UK::http://109.74.195.142:9332/::0.5%::BTC::Gyver's p2pool::Gyver - Now with graphs. Use '29fbe016a606fcb4' for password.

I've a new one set up which hopefully will not need any new change:

Germany::http://p2pool.bouton.name:9332/::0.5%::BTC::Gyver's p2pool::Gyver - Use 'bouton' for password.

check_status, please remove my server entry, it's down now.

Well, you have CPU and bandwidth issues you have to take on too.

If you don't have a lot of bandwidth, you may be better off pointing your miners at a public p2pool node. That node would handle all of the bandwidth themselves, that would be needed to stay sync'd with the other p2pool nodes, as well as the bitcoind/litecoind daemons and their bandwidth needs also.

Since I have the bandwidth available, I also maintain more connections on both of my daemons and p2pool node, than you'd probably see on the average node.

I handle keeping everything current on their updates too.

For some miners, not having to mess with all of that is worth my tiny fee, particularly if they are in a more rural area.

The public nodes are also useful for people who just want to try out mining through p2pool for a while before making the full commitment to doing it all themselves.

And lastly, it is always good to have a couple failovers set up in your miners, in case your own p2pool or daemon crashes for whatever reason, your miners would just switch over to the public node using the same payout address, picking up exactly where you left off on your own node with little interruption, while you figure out what went wrong on your node.

If you only check on your rig a few times a day, having a public node failover could save you hours of mining effort if you don't notice your own node having stopped for several hours after it happened.

-- Smoov

Some people don't know how to setup their own p2pool server, so they join a public one.

From p2pool.info:

Pool Luck(?) (7 days, 30 days, 90 days): 109.8% 107.7% 105.3%

Though it's on a looong round right now.

I have a naive question.  Why join some little p2pool server when I can just join p2pool directly?  I never got this.

This was the way it always was. I ran one for a little while, but first my fees were 0.1% (not worth it, these days I run a bonus pool paying 105-109% PPS and still make 3-6% profit) and then because of the anonymous nature of p2pool somebody decided to point a bunch of bots my way and my VPS provider got a complaint. Not cool.
Kinda surprised p2pool is still so popular - what's the situation these days with "luck"/pool orphans?

I've updated p2pool.stitthappens.com (both BTC/NMC on 8336 and LTC on 10336) to the 4.0 tag