I think I share some
first ear information I just received from a phone call with KnC:
The ordering of the hosting option
will not have an influence of the timing of installation.
They never (intended to) promise(d) that all hosted devices will be up running before any
boxes get shipped.
If you are at your place
in the queue (and it looks this is the payment queue), your box will
either be sent to the hosting facility (which will take some hours ?)
or send out via UPS.
There will be
no ssh or other direct access to any hosted miners. That's for security reasons
and I totally agree on this.
There will be a
webinterface (and it looks like they are not speaking about what you see
on your current order page). This webinterface also just gets finalized (omg, that's not professional!)
and they can't promise that a backup mining pool will be in the first revision of this software.
Starting the production lines did not go as smoothly as they did expect.
But the production is running.
I congratulated them for nearly meeting the promised timeframe and it looks like they are
very proud and happy they did!
This does not completely match what they wrote to me on the 28th of August:
Our devices will be shipped with CGMiner preinstalled, this has been further configured to work with our miners. You have access to the Linux platform via SSH to install any other mining software you wish.
Regards,
Liam
Maybe they were talking only about shipped and not hosted devices (though I have hosted solution).
More investigations is needed...
