[GUIDE] Mining on Amazon EC2 using Spot instances

[Sy]

Just use the cc2.8xlarge instances in Ireland. They didnt rise in price all day.

Btw the new ptsminer on beeeeer.org is 10% faster than jhMiner on ypool.
http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=234.msg5651#msg5651

Even cheaper in Virginia and Oregon :)

[Sy]

slicify.com has free servers!

Awesome I didn't know about them, thank you!

I tried slicify.com and everytime I found share always invalid share, reason : Share data time underflow.
Any idea how to fix this?

Yeah, set the time :D
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/NTP.html

[joele]

slicify.com has free servers!

Awesome I didn't know about them, thank you!

I tried slicify.com and everytime I found share always invalid share, reason : Share data time underflow.
Any idea how to fix this?

[gee]

slicify.com has free servers!

Awesome I didn't know about them, thank you!

[smokim11]

Profibricks just might be a bit shady:

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/profitbricks.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=popup-donuts

I think you need a german phone number for jiffybox. Check out Profitbricks.

Trying profitblocks but seems my account got deleted after adding my credit card and verifying it by sending 5$ from it (it said it would be refunded). Got an email confirming my account and it took me to the login page couldn't sign in. I tried the forgot password option and it tells me no account exists with this email.

Sent an email to support, will give it till tomorrow after that will have to open a dispute to get my money back.

I haven't got any reply from them yet, planning to open a dispute and planning to cancel the credit card I used with them and get my bank to issue me a new one just to be on the safe side.

[cybe]

Profibricks just might be a bit shady:

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/profitbricks.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=popup-donuts

I think you need a german phone number for jiffybox. Check out Profitbricks.

Trying profitblocks but seems my account got deleted after adding my credit card and verifying it by sending 5$ from it (it said it would be refunded). Got an email confirming my account and it took me to the login page couldn't sign in. I tried the forgot password option and it tells me no account exists with this email.

Sent an email to support, will give it till tomorrow after that will have to open a dispute to get my money back.

[craggietx]

slicify.com has free servers!

[Amazon]

I want to thank you all for choosing Amazon. ;)

[smokim11]

I think you need a german phone number for jiffybox. Check out Profitbricks.

Trying profitblocks but seems my account got deleted after adding my credit card and verifying it by sending 5$ from it (it said it would be refunded). Got an email confirming my account and it took me to the login page couldn't sign in. I tried the forgot password option and it tells me no account exists with this email.

Sent an email to support, will give it till tomorrow after that will have to open a dispute to get my money back.

[Financisto]

If this was cost effective, why would you share it?

Eheh yes it was very cost effective a few days ago; and I used it.
Now it is still cost effective, but less than before, and I'm switching to other coins.

Why do I look chinese?  ;)

Nice guide.

How do you exactly calculate cost effectiveness for that situation?

Any "automated" calculator available out there?

[JohnD]

I think you need a german phone number for jiffybox. Check out Profitbricks.

[JohnD]

Check jiffybox. Not as professional as amazon but 0.02 € / hour for a 3 core Xeon is just great.

[5chdn]

Just use the cc2.8xlarge instances in Ireland. They didnt rise in price all day.

Btw the new ptsminer on beeeeer.org is 10% faster than jhMiner on ypool.
http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=234.msg5651#msg5651

[joesmoe]

I third that. Anybody have any other places to recommend? Seems all the cheap spot hosting on amazon has all been taken up by people mining...

[zefo]

Me too!