Plotting and Mining on Amazon Cloud Drive
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@RichBC
I am running 2012 R2 on my instances. Don't think it will make any difference though. Your home network speeds are comparable with what you are getting with the T2 instance. Only problem is that you need to leave your home PC running 24/7 so electricity costs come in to play. The T2 instance however is free!!
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@machasm It runs 24/7 anyway, so no additional cost :-) Its not my main home which has terrible speed and very unreliable Internet, we are 4 Miles from the exchange, but I have put a remote PC at what will be the main Home later this year and fortunate to have a fibre cabinet 300Yds away.
I will run as I am and see how long it takes to get locked?
Rich
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So I mined with the 16TB for some hours Yesterday, however later in the day everything ground to a halt on the Pool I was on.
Have moved to pool.burstmining.club this Morning and we are up and running again. Deadline here is much longer so am making more submissions. Let's see how it goes Today?
Rich
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@RichBC
Hey Rich. Looks like the pool you were on is still stuck this morning! Shame, as I was thinking of hopping on to it too.
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@machasm OK so far on pool.burstmining.club. I am hitting deadlines about 9 out of 10 Blocks and get through the plot about 50% of the time, so some breaks in the Download.
So although way off meeting the usual criteria for a read time ( 30 seconds) I think in the context of low cost Cloud Mining what I have at the moment is about balanced.
So that is to say 16TB with a 80Mb/s Download speed, 8 Minutes to read the Plots?
Rich
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@RichBC Ok, found the size parameter in the .ini file too...I'll try that out.
@machasm Thx I will try rclone to do the uploading instead of NetDrive2 or the native ACD desktop app...Scripts got quite complicated with those because of the waiting for the cache to get purged.
Have you taken a look at the small Linode.com VPS offerings to do the mining (I'm not there yet) ?
They state 40Gbps Network In for 5 bucks a month ...
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Everything was fine as reported for about 10 Hours yesterday then started getting these errors and the Download speed dropped right down.
Both readFile, and error opening. Tried restarting the miner and closing and reopening rdrive but no improvement. Checked the internet speed and my end and it was fine.
Eventually gave in and stopped Mining, restarted first thing this Morning and everything fine again for the last 5 Hours. So do not know if it's a time of day thing or if Amazon start throttling after some constant downloading?
Rich
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@RichBC
I have found that there seems to be a point in time (normally evening here in the UK) when things slow down from ACD.
I have verified this problem running on two AWS instances an TWO ACD drives and it seams to happen on both at around the same time so maybe a global problem with ACD?
Also noted that on occasion the T2.mcro instance can grind to a very low speed but as soon as I change to another instance on the same cloud drive the speed picks back up. Could this be down to CPU cycles being throttled on the AWS instance perhaps?
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@machasm OK could be the same problem, am in the UK as well. That log above is just before 7 Oclock, and it was still bad at 9 oclock.
Rich
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@machasm Just coming up to 18:00 and speed is dropping. Not a hard cap type speed drop, but very variable. I suspect we will go down hill from here.
Rich
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@RichBC yep seeing a slow down here too. Was running at around 8Mb/s now dropping to between 5-6.
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@machasm OK looks like it's the Amazon end that slows things, here's a graph showing the change from a Bandwidth at my end limited download to a very ragged variable one.
Looks to me more like increased traffic at Amazon restricting available Bandwidth rather than a Cap?
It's now gone from bad to worse, so will shut down for the night.
Rich
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UGH! well thats not good new :[ so do you its worth the time ? or is it unusable?
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@gersey There are a lot of problems. Some have been found and resolved, some we have no solution to at the moment and some we have yet to find. However my feeling is that there is still a future for Cloud Mining, but we are not there yet.
The good news is that apart from time, the costs involved are quite low, and it's a fun challenge to be working on.
Rich
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I agree! So ill just keep my upload rolling for now hope to join in the cloud mining funny shortly!
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I was going to ask if anyone looked into google drive but scene its 99 bucks a month for 10TB not really a option
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Amazon cloud drive account locked out again!
I am beginning to think that this might not be worth the hassle after all.
Its definately automated as I have two ACD accounts and they were both locked at the same time at around 19:00 British time
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@machasm Interesting, so I might have got logged out just in time :-)
Spoke too soon, just checked my account and I am locked out as well, despite having no activity for the last Hour......
Rich
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@RichBC ChatEnd ChatSound
Me: Hi I have just got a message that my Amazon Drive has been locked. Can you help?
Thanks
You're now connected to Karthik from Amazon.co.uk
Karthik: Hello, my name is Karthik. I'll be happy to help you.
Am I chatting with Rich?
Me: Yes
Karthik: Hey Rich, I'll surely help you in this regard.
Me: Thank You
Karthik: I'll right away unlock this for you Rich.
I've successfully unlocked the drive on your account.
You should be able to use it now.
I hope I was able to help you in this regard.
Me: OK thank you. It has been locked before, do you know why?
Karthik: Accounts may be closed when we've noticed unusual activity, including users accessing Amazon Drive from many devices and above normal frequency levels.
this is when the drive gets locked.
Me: Yes that's great it's fine now. Yes I did use it a lot Today but only from a single device. Thank You
Karthik: You're most welcome Rich.:-)
Looks to me that they log usage / IP's etc but only Lock people out after data has been gathered over a 24Hr - 48Hr and as @machasm says it smacks to me of being an automated process, rather than someone examining the logs?
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How have the speeds been tonight? Still all over the place?



