I spoke with KnC on the phone again (!) about the hosting.
All DAY1 customers with hosting should have their miner up and running in the hosting center by today (Tuesday).
They will receive an e-mail with the access informations.
I assume this will be just the web-interface. So I already sent them an e-mail yesterday requesting 2 external
pools to be configured (which can only be done via ssh access inside of cgminer).
I don't believe this will be done without a further call, but let's hope for the best.
trepex
They said, in the beginning there will be the KnC-pool available, only as far as I can remember.
As soon as the management interface is up&running you can do what ever you want.
I'd hope they will not modify the config file via ssh for each and every hosting customer asking for it as it would delay startup even further.
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Update regarding my received day2 order.
I reverted firmware version back to 0.91+rebootfix:
runs way more stable now - not a single reboot in the last minutes
(valid) hashrate is
~/.ssh/authorized_keys not present after firmware downgrade
custom password still present
modified cgminer.config present