This seems to be very nice

Can't connect to the pool for some reason.

Just to note everyone, because this spawns individual threads you can do genproclimit much higher. i980 24GB I can use genproclimit 8 and still have room for coffee.

Do you have a linux variant floating around (or the SC). I've got a nice little fleet I can throw at it.

1) Install ProtoShares
2) Run PS for the first time and let it download the blockchain (otherwise you're going to have a ton of wasted electricity) - waiting for all the other block chains to download
3) Create new directories up to the amount of instances you want to run on the server.  Rule of thumb is 1 instance per core and 2GB ram (create a swap file if you don;t have enough ram)
cp .protoshares PS/1
cp .protoshares PS/2
... N

Put the following protoshares.conf in each of the directories (making changes to the port and genlimit as necessary)
addnode=162.243.67.4
addnode=162.243.54.126
addnode=37.139.29.236
addnode=64.90.183.137
addnode=180.183.205.118
addnode=162.243.61.72
addnode=64.90.183.137
genproclimit=x
gen=1
port=833x
rpcport=843x

Replace the X with the instance number, and genproclimit with 1-3

4) Create a startPS.sh file with the following inside:
#!/bin/sh
/root/ProtoShares/src/bitcoind -daemon
sleep 360
/root/ProtoShares/src/bitcoind -datadir=/root/PS/1 -daemon
sleep 360
/root/ProtoShares/src/bitcoind -datadir=/root/PS/1 -daemon
...
Up to your server load

5) chmod +x startPS.sh
6) Profit

Why the sleep in there. I found that trying to start all the instances at once doesn't allow the instances enough time to start hashing. Running it without the sleep takes about 45 minutes before hashing starts, running it with the sleep starts the hashing after about 6 minutes for the first instance, 12 for 1+2, and another hash every minute after that.

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Quote from: kenpodragon on November 06, 2013, 12:01:35 am

Here is a pro-tip.

Create a droplet, get it up and running. Make sure that the bitcoind starts when you boot the computer.
Poweroff the instance
Create a snapshot
When it makes sense to start running again, use this snapshot to get your instances up and running again. If you want to be really high speed, you can use their API.

can you tell me how to Poweroff the instance ？please help more.

log into the instance
sudo poweroff
on the droplet webpage click create snapshot

Maybe that's what you downloaded to.

Here is the most recent one
{
"blocks" : 1444,
"currentblocksize" : 1844,
"currentblocktx" : 1,
"difficulty" : 0.00000095,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 3,
"hashespermin" : 10.18785409,
"pooledtx" : 1,
"testnet" : false
}

2 Ways -

1) Open up the debug window and type the following in succession:
addnode 162.243.67.4 add
addnode 162.243.54.126 add
addnode 37.139.29.236 add
addnode 64.90.183.137 add
addnode 180.183.205.118 add

There are a couple IPs listed on the form here as well.