Topic: [VERTCOIN][POOL]~VTC's 1st PPS Pool|2% fee|ProjectXPPS.com|1 VTC Block Bonus!~ (Read 6298 times)

Thought it was time to mine some vertcoin again, so I am pointing one rig at this awesome pool.

Glad to see ProjectXPPS is still alive and kicking.

Doing significant updates to the servers (upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 broke the vertcoin daemon, so I thought while down upgrade a bunch of stuff) and moving the web server.  Be back up tonight.  Sorry for the delay.

I am interested in it.  MPOS does not support merged mining, so I wonder how it will be implemented.  

Update: Just singed up here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-mon-monocle-merge-mined-on-vtc-vertcoin-no-premine-scrypt-n-585817

Mining pool is down.
Marty suggest that you take a look at implementing monocle too as it's mined along with vtc chain...

Replication was down and restored this morning.  Now the web server can read your worked logged at each stratum server.

No shares or animals were lost during this process.

Thank you for mining and please email or pm if you have any issues mining on the pool. 

250 VTC Block Reward Update: 4/5 found by Mr. Lucky - aka  revak - and choopernet2010 got a block, too!

• Block Number 71293 has been discovered by revak with a block bonus of 50 VTC paid to revak
• Block Number 71762 has been discovered by revak with a block bonus of 50 VTC paid to revak
• Block Number 72627 has been discovered by revak with a block bonus of 50 VTC paid to revak
• Block Number 72847 has been discovered by revak with a block bonus of 50 VTC paid to revak
• Block Number 72910 has been discovered by revak with a block bonus of 50 VTC paid to choopernet2010

Thank you for mining, back to 1 VTC block bonus until the end of the month.

For the next 5 blocks - 50 VTC Block Bonus - You find it you keep it!

I hear ya, bro...  You're welcome at this pool forever! 

The first VTC PPS pool,
Looking forward to go back mining VTC  here when plain scrypt iff is raped by scrypt ASIC in June.

tl;dr version - ProjectXPPS.com is fully operational with a Block Bonus of 1 VTC until the end of April.

Full version
I have all the stratum servers up.  

4 Global Public Nodes
stratum.projectxpps.com:3333 in New York, USA
stratum2.projectxpps.com:3333 in San Francisco, USA
stratum3.projectxpps.com:3333 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, EU
stratum4.projectxpps.com:3333 in Singapore, Asia

The web server will move to the NY data center, too...

The week was very hectic and today was the first chance I could make a significant dent in the migration.  

So, we are extending the block bonus until the end of the month.  Thank you!

Thank you all for hanging in there while I had to rebuild everything from scratch...  Unfortunately, we are still having network issues at work and it appears that the stratum server at work just made the issues worse.

Finally, I can now offer a High Availability Global Network of Stratum Nodes located on 3 continents.  Our footprint will expand as Digital Ocean expands their global footprint.  We can scale our web service as need very quickly.

If you are in the EU, use stratum3.projectxpps.com:3333 (Netherlands) as your primary and stratum.projectxpps.com:3333 (East Coast,USA) as your backup.  Likewise, in Asia, use stratum4.projectxpps.com:3333 (Singapore) as your primary and stratum2.projectxpps.com:3333 (West Coast,USA) as your backup.  Or whichever node performs the best...

Pool efficiency is 99%+ and I highly recommend connecting to the closest node for the best mining results.

Heartbleed was fixed last week...the day I heard about it.  Also, we also use Cloudflare to protect all of us from malicious attacks and DDoS.

i see it down too 

Twitter is blocked at my work, is the site down again?

Ok, I have been updating the twitter feed on what has happened and where we are at since all the problems or issues started.  Twitter is better about updating, at least for me.  More Feedback on that please.

We grew and the bandwidth was not sufficient.  Rejects were accumulating as shares were arriving too late to be used and efficiency went downhill. (Update: after writing this, Comcast has found router config issues on their end, maybe the source of our problems the whole time)  So, I called my ISP and doubled my bandwidth and all the issues we had earlier in the month came back.  Then they sent out a tech on Sunday to work on it.  Replaced a bunch of equipment, we are on 8th gateway router in 33 days (wtf?,) and then they left and I had NO connectivity.  Then I went off site to set up everything in the cloud.  Last night they claimed they fixed it, connectivity resumed, but I was in the middle of setting up replications, I was just going to keep it down until the new infrastructure was up.  Then sleep came into the picture.  Woke up and the tech called to have me test the old infrastructure (cause they don't want me to decrease my speed) and we are dealing with the same crap on again.

This sucks for everyone.  However, won't for long.  I am in the process of getting free of this BS and moving everything to the Digital Ocean's cloud of SSD based servers.  Two stratum servers for the North America in NY and MN (basically Canada,) one for the EU in NL, and one for Asian Pacific miners in SG.  Separate web server in NY as well.

This could have been completed sooner, if I didn't have 3 young children who I only see on the weekend.  They were good sports about me working, however, I did have to make promises to get our servers fixed for next weekend.

Top it all off, just got all call from Comcast, and they think after 8 equipment fixes, they finally found the issue: my static IP's were set up wrong causing HUGE latency issues....  They just rebuilt them and I see much improved latency.  But, the pool in only at a third of the overall load that we had on Saturday.  Do I trust them, NFW!  It does give me more time to set up redundancy on the cloud. 

I can't believe it, could my favorite ISP :-P have finally fixed it? So far, so good!  Come on back please, please, pretty please?  Going to extend the block bonus until Wednesday and remember to adjust your donations...  2% fee + Donations... I was going to reset donations, however, I am at my day job and it is end of month fire drill!

Uptime Robot:
Current Status Up
Since 1 hrs, 0 mins (31-03-2014 10:15:30)

It is recorded on 31-03-2014 10:11:08 and the downtime lasted for 0 hrs, 4 mins.

1 Hour and we are mining away...

 

only main page is working, cant access into settings and another subpages, it redirects to hosting page..

The website is back
UPDATE: website is intermittent as of 9am (PST)

It does look like the pool took a hit last night 7p, but it bounced back by 8p.

I left my miners connected and it's been doing just fine.
It does look like the pool lost about hash it's hash rate since the dip.

It's not just the front end that is having issue, the back end as well. If I restart vertminer it automatically connects to my my backup pool and some switch back to this pool randomly.  If you scroll back a few threads, he was working on this last night. An update should have been posted.

maybe hosting companies are not working during weekends and Martin is anywhere with family, we will see..

an update is overdue

MartyChubbs has been making this pool perfectly until this incident. I hope everything will be back OK soon.

Sad to see ProjectXPPS down.  Was doing quite well with this pool - although I hope we'll have less disconnects with after it's back.  Over to solo mining EXECoin right now.

me the same, miner failovered to backup pool 

stratum+tcp://stratum.projectxpps.com:3333   Dead