[GUIDE] The "No BS Amazon AWS Protoshare Cloud Mining Guide"

[K20]

Thinking about making a guide for ypool on Amazon?

Would be greatly appreciated   :)

Added a new thread

Back to the whole amazon debacle.  My bills only show values in brackets.  When I queried this, they said I was in the free tier and still had my credit.

This month, my bill is in brackets, yet the total is £0


Confused..

[hammerbrain]

Thinking about making a guide for ypool on Amazon?

Would be greatly appreciated   :)

[zvs]

Anybody knows how we will be charged after the 100 free credit? They just stop the server or charge us from credit card directly? I don't even know where to check my used credit, it always displays 0, but I have been running it for 2 days...

Has anyone been able to get an EC2 server recently?

The $100 free still works as its been applied to my account, but getting a spot is impossible:

open
capacity-oversubscribed

Edit.  Had to up to $1. Can't get yvgprotominor working on it now...

Eh, haven't had a problem at all

can get 8 core for 7 cents

ed:  though you'd need to get it for about 3 cents now for it to be worth it

amazon will charge you for overage

i also had a hard time locating the actual bill.  i think it only updates once a day.  go to billing & there should be a 'Bills' under 'Dashboard' in that menu... click on Bills... then it should break it down like so

Details   Total
AWS Service Charges   $11.54
Data Transfer   $0.00
Elastic Compute Cloud   $10.96
Simple Notification Service   $0.00
GST to be collected   $0.00
US Sales Tax to be collected   $0.58
VAT to be collected   $0.00

which means I went over a bit.. but you can click on details and it should give breakdown of your fees & so you can see how close you are to passing that credit

[ripplexiaoshan]

Anybody knows how we will be charged after the 100 free credit? They just stop the server or charge us from credit card directly? I don't even know where to check my used credit, it always displays 0, but I have been running it for 2 days...

Has anyone been able to get an EC2 server recently?

The $100 free still works as its been applied to my account, but getting a spot is impossible:

open
capacity-oversubscribed

Edit.  Had to up to $1. Can't get yvgprotominor working on it now...

Eh, haven't had a problem at all

can get 8 core for 7 cents

ed:  though you'd need to get it for about 3 cents now for it to be worth it

[zvs]

Has anyone been able to get an EC2 server recently?

The $100 free still works as its been applied to my account, but getting a spot is impossible:

open
capacity-oversubscribed

Edit.  Had to up to $1. Can't get yvgprotominor working on it now...

Eh, haven't had a problem at all

can get 8 core for 7 cents

ed:  though you'd need to get it for about 3 cents now for it to be worth it

[K20]

Seems now it goes up to 3$...

Go for cc2.8xlarge instead.  Cheaper and 500cm

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[ripplexiaoshan]

Seems now it goes up to 3$...

[K20]

Has anyone been able to get an EC2 server recently?

The $100 free still works as its been applied to my account, but getting a spot is impossible:

open
capacity-oversubscribed

Edit.  Had to up to $1. Can't get yvgprotominor working on it now...

[moxuanyuan]

thanks , and mark  :'(

[smokim11]

The Amazon page for the free $100 credit appears to have 404'd.

Would anyone be interested in a post outlining all of the cloud computing services that offer free trials that can be used for mining?

These are the ones I found that are worth mining PTS on, others I found are a few days only and very very low specs.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=887.0

[lordfirefox]

I just realized my final draft somehow removed the line:

Code Select Expand


sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev yasm unzip mc


It appears in the earlier drafts of the document however. Not sure why or how it vanished from my Google Doc's version. (And no it's not set editable by the public)

Anyways I corrected it.

[jizzbeard]

The Amazon page for the free $100 credit appears to have 404'd.

Would anyone be interested in a post outlining all of the cloud computing services that offer free trials that can be used for mining?

[zvs]

hi guys

i tried to mine on an AWS.
But i have this probleme when i'm installing ptsminer (with the makefile)

g++ -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now  -o ptsminer  obj/cpuid.o obj/sha512_avx.o obj/sha512_sse4.o obj/sha512.o obj/sph_sha2.o obj/sph_sha2big.o obj/main_poolminer.o  -Wl,-Bdynamic -l boost_system -l boost_filesystem -l boost_program_options -l boost_thread -l boost_chrono -Wl,-Bdynamic -l z -l dl -l pthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ptsminer] Error 1


Do you have an idea?

Thanks

You are missing library "lz"

if you have zlib1g-dev already and it doesn't work, try using the 32bit lib32z1-dev

[HCarvalho]

Is it true that AWS is cracking down on all those that are using EC2 instances to mine? Making them paying full price instead of spot isntance prices? Or this rumour is just an hoax to make spot instances prices go down?

That's the first I've heard of it. Why would amazon deny themselves revenu by clamping down on PTS miners? That doesn't make any sense.

no idea, I only know that on monday I received a call from an UK number from AWS to confirm it was me using my account

[lordfirefox]

Is it true that AWS is cracking down on all those that are using EC2 instances to mine? Making them paying full price instead of spot isntance prices? Or this rumour is just an hoax to make spot instances prices go down?

That's the first I've heard of it. Why would amazon deny themselves revenu by clamping down on PTS miners? That doesn't make any sense.

[HCarvalho]

Is it true that AWS is cracking down on all those that are using EC2 instances to mine? Making them paying full price instead of spot isntance prices? Or this rumour is just an hoax to make spot instances prices go down?

[dany_danay]

dont work for me root@Ptscoin:~/ptsminer-master/src# ./ptsminer PnC8XBg5ytdBXyUDa47sJuH7xe5UJ6bEMz 16 27 sse4
-bash: ./ptsminer: No such file or directory

[wiwi936]

hi guys

i tried to mine on an AWS.
But i have this probleme when i'm installing ptsminer (with the makefile)

g++ -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now  -o ptsminer  obj/cpuid.o obj/sha512_avx.o obj/sha512_sse4.o obj/sha512.o obj/sph_sha2.o obj/sph_sha2big.o obj/main_poolminer.o  -Wl,-Bdynamic -l boost_system -l boost_filesystem -l boost_program_options -l boost_thread -l boost_chrono -Wl,-Bdynamic -l z -l dl -l pthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ptsminer] Error 1


Do you have an idea?

Thanks

[lordfirefox]

If the prices are getting crazy then go with some smaller Spot instances. You can set up multiple instances to mine. Just check prices before you commit.

[Moonover]

The minimum price for a spot instance is dependent on the number of spot request they are currently receiving ... check in the other region and check TheStorm's comment.

You better set your spot max price between 0.15 and + above the minimum if you want to have time to mine ...

[TheStorm]

You checked for Linux/UNIX u need to check for Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC) then you will get the correct prices.

[rhombus_77]

Can someone explain to me the pricing of spot instances?  On http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#spot is a table which shows lowest price per region.  It is updated every 5 minutes.  Currently in Sydney, a c3.8xlarge is a $0.894 per Hour.  When I try to request a spot instance at lets say Max Price of $1.0, it is tagged as price-to-low.  In the Status line it states that $1.0 is lower than the minimum required Spot request fulfillment price of 40.0.   Looking at the Pricing History table, it shows a spike to $1.20, but holds steady at $0.89.  I am not sure what is going on. 

[Moonover]

I strongly believe that the market value of PTS is in fact gonna sky rocket soon enough ... I don't mind paying between 2 to 8 $ a day to mine ... it's called an investment.

two instance of c1.xlarge costs me 0.15/hour for now with a spot instance and are giving me 0.04 PTS per hour/hour and a half ... I'm not even losing money yet. And with the 100 $ from amazon, I'm making enough profit to compensate for a week or so of paying from my pocket ...

Definitely worth it. If you are not willing to risk something, you will never have a chance to be rich.

[pooky]

Well, I did some calculation. AWS might not be worth it unless you believe PTS price will raise dramatically in the future. (After your $100 free credit)

One cc2.8xlarge generates about 0.002685PTS per hour. At the current PTS/USD rate, that is $0.06143 USD. Even at the lowest price, cc2.8xlarge will cost you about $0.27 per hour. So you will have a negative ROI.

[Troglodactyl]

Nice guide, but I'd like to point out that you don't have to type all those commands in PUTTY.  Copy to clipboard, then right click in PUTTY to paste.  Also, once you have one set up, save the image from that instance and select it from "My AMI's" for the next instances so you don't have to install everything again.  This works even better if you add the run miner commands to a startup script, as that way you don't even have to connect to new instances, they'll just put themselves to work.

[Moonover]

I had the spot request for 24h ... after that, I keep getting this message in the log when I try to spot it : Your Spot request with price 0.51 was not fulfilled as the number of Spot requests with equal or higher prices exceeds the available capacity in this pool. ...

damb it ...

D.

[rhombus_77]

I do not understand either.  I put a bid in at Sidney for $0.5.  According to the price history the spot price is $0.447.  The status message for my request states the minimum fulfillment price is 15.99

[JohnD]

Just to let you know guys, the spot instance for a c3.4xlarge in South East asia  (Sydney) is only at 0.22 ... quite a bargain.

I tried to get them but it did not work (even for 0.35). The prices statistics are sometimes strange... or do just not understand it.

[Moonover]

Just to let you know guys, the spot instance for a c3.4xlarge in South East asia  (Sydney) is only at 0.22 ... quite a bargain.

[Moonover]

Awesome guide man, thanks a lot !

Will send some PTS your way !

[smokim11]

Nice guide very informative, will post a link to my thread.

I was wondering I am doing some tests and was wondering if you know how to mine a GPU (scrypt miner) on the amazon EC2 GPU instances?

Trying Cgminer and spent literally 7 hours, I've tried everything but it won't work. I've noticed alot of figured it out but their guides seem outdated.

If you know how to setup or know someone that can please let me know.

I'll donate 1 PTS for help, preferably over teamviewer (I'll have a amazon EC2 GPU instance ready to go) I prefer Ubuntu but windows is also ok.

[lordfirefox]

Reserved.

[lordfirefox]

I'm posting this guide up here. It's in LibreOffice .odt format but can be opened in Wordpad on Windows 8 as well. If needed I could convert it to a .pdf

the pool used was beeeeer.org's pool and ptsminer.

Pimu7pvvbCJF9LKsCUw2ZUb2pdHRzLLjBa for Donations and I might do a more recent one for Coyote pool (maybe).  8)

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