[Quick Guide] Mine on Ypool with Windows Azure Free Trial Servers

[K20]

I've had my Azure servers running for 18 hours now and have noticed I've started  being billed



Looks like the yield has fallen too..

Same here, I got 109c/m for each VM. It's confusing because my real PC with I7 4cores /8threads can run up to 220 c/m. Maybe VM is supposed to run slower....

I think the they will charge us in one month's, so we should cancel this service before that if we don't want to pay for 220$? 

Have just set this up, but disappointingly only getting 100c/m

I've got 2 VM's running so thats a total of 200c/m.

Not exactly sure how this works with the billing and the 30 day trial and £130. Seems like its either 30 days free trial use of the servers or $200 credit to use in the same fashion.  I'm currently using all 20 cores to get about 280c/m and my credit hasn't gone down - only the number of days left

[ripplexiaoshan]

Same here, I got 109c/m for each VM. It's confusing because my real PC with I7 4cores /8threads can run up to 220 c/m. Maybe VM is supposed to run slower....

I think the they will charge us in one month's, so we should cancel this service before that if we don't want to pay for 220$? 

Have just set this up, but disappointingly only getting 100c/m

I've got 2 VM's running so thats a total of 200c/m.

Not exactly sure how this works with the billing and the 30 day trial and £130. Seems like its either 30 days free trial use of the servers or $200 credit to use in the same fashion.  I'm currently using all 20 cores to get about 280c/m and my credit hasn't gone down - only the number of days left

[K20]

Have just set this up, but disappointingly only getting 100c/m

I've got 2 VM's running so thats a total of 200c/m.

Not exactly sure how this works with the billing and the 30 day trial and £130. Seems like its either 30 days free trial use of the servers or $200 credit to use in the same fashion.  I'm currently using all 20 cores to get about 280c/m and my credit hasn't gone down - only the number of days left

[JohnD]

I am an absolute beginner to mining/cloud mining, but I was able to get this running as described on the first post. Does anyone have a way to correct this error I'm getting?:

INVALID SHARE - OUTDATED MINER VERSION

I've searched through the forum and found a couple references to it - but any of the fixes/workarounds mentioned are way over my head.. Is there a command I can put into putty to update the miner & which miner should I be updating to?

Sorry if I missed this somewhere else & thanks for any help!

Just download an use one of the updated miners here: https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g
I did not test it but i guess i it works.

I am using beers pool currently:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix yasm screen htop

git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/ptsminer
cd ~/ptsminer/src
make -f makefile.unix
screen ./ptsminer <your PTS address> <number of threads>


[jamthedude]

I am an absolute beginner to mining/cloud mining, but I was able to get this running as described on the first post. Does anyone have a way to correct this error I'm getting?:

INVALID SHARE - OUTDATED MINER VERSION

I've searched through the forum and found a couple references to it - but any of the fixes/workarounds mentioned are way over my head.. Is there a command I can put into putty to update the miner & which miner should I be updating to?

Sorry if I missed this somewhere else & thanks for any help!

[runderwo]

Doh, I calculated with the A7 and A6 prices instead of the XL and L size instances that I actually set up.  Thanks.

Looks like you get .96+.24/hr=1.20/hr  $200/1.20 = ~166 hours

[HCarvalho]

I got about five days worth of mining in each of azure accounts, 2x8 cores, 1x4 cores, windows 2012

[runderwo]

The free trial says $200 worth but for 29 days... is it just time limited or will they begin silently charging at some point as well?

Edit: ok used the calculator here.
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=virtual-machines

Looks like you get about 31 hours of 2x8 core + 4 core linux to use up the $200 credit.

[kenpodragon]

Here's a quick way to get coyote running on your ubuntu server. There are some library dependancies in there you need.

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sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev git build-essential htop libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libssl-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev git libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix screen
wget -O ub http://the-iland.net/static/downloads/ubuntu12_coyote_miner.0.3.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf ub
screen -d -m -S ubuntu12_coyote_miner.0.3.0 COYOTESERVER YOURWALLETID `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l`

[solaaire]

Thanks again! I didn't even realize you could upload your own images to azure... makes a lot of sense in retrospect. The commands even worked on  ubuntu 13.10 servers i already had running.

The most embarrassing part is that i have actually been using the commands you just posted to mine on debian via digital ocean for the last week. DOH!

EDIT: Ha! Figured out my problem.. Turns out I had tried these commands before however I had an extremely out of date version of ptsminer so the -f makefile command wasn't working. Updated to v.06 of the miner and it's all good now :)

[JohnD]

any tips to get beeeeer's pool working on azure? i tried transplanting and frankensteining commands I was using on AWS (running ubuntu 13.10 as well) but I cannot figure it out!

Setup with Debian 7.

edit:

Howto setup on Debian 7 (copied from another thread)

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix

git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/ptsminer
cd ~/ptsminer/src
make -f makefile.unix
./ptsminer <your PTS address> <number of threads>


[solaaire]

any tips to get beeeeer's pool working on azure? i tried transplanting and frankensteining commands I was using on AWS (running ubuntu 13.10 as well) but I cannot figure it out! 

[Polke]

Great post.

Is there a way to update the protominer?

[BartV]

They did:
see http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=449.msg8476#msg8476

[timegrinder]

Hopefully someone over at yPool has noticed that the link to their miner is down and fixes it.

The original set included a full range of AMD/Intel optimised miners, though if anyone knows how to contact yvg1900 you might want to let them know.