OK, after yesterdays fender bender with HP servers, I can conclude that there is an option that is good,
First I started with 2XL which is priced at 0.9$ per hour and it gave me around 110 hpm, after experimenting with others, best price to ratio gave me this:
Standard Large 8 HP Cloud Compute Units, 4 virtual cores, 8GB RAM, 160GB disk
which costs 0.24$ per hour, I started 4 servers which is 0.96$ per hour, got around 250 hpm total
given that you have 50$ free trial and 0.96$ cost per hour that gives you 52 hours of free mining at 250 hpm which I think is worth using
How does the private key info work? I made a server but its asking for the private key I copied pasted the one in key pairs but it didnt work.
1. you need to open PuttyGen or similar program for SSH generation, in Puttygen you click generate then move your mouse around to generate some random bits,
after generating you name your key like you want and type in key comment, i wrote "test" so my public key looks like this:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAl+UHqISH9xm/+J2wnE0PSO9llTBShNLgJBqw0DXfoy+48T7g23AYAcD8NZXu0bFJRNQLpLzH2PNmz7qIrvlgtcXKqh1JXCenD4p4chcqwRLrslfzBhCPAxQZbls2CJZ/IoN28W+2Y8CiyPSgB3avP9wqC3/DnrV5jaq7ZczHc0htlTq8Nf9hwJTTjZndjDWUrcGgIIs2cuMvxlMjnVqJDX3nLxZVY/AOOojx+p+WezISIUMU1KitwL6gFg1WjCaeVwEiBfr39cnj+4ajCZpOpy+qeT7iTaVRjxrGzr/zv0WKSQVOazljdeGBESOznrQ4v3LA2XbRtWyHUWlHjxUZ/Q== test
open notepad and save your public key,
add password in required field if you think you need password (i have it) and save private key.
2. open HP Cloud and go to Key Pairs section, click add key pair,
enter key name, and paste your public key from notepad to Show Public Key Field?
then create key
start server using created key
3. open putty
paste your server public ip from hp cloud,
go to connection>ssh(expand)>auth and then browse for your private key that you saved earlier
open, enter your username (ubuntu isfor ubuntu 13.10) and password that you created using puttygen
