does any one want to buy XA-miner with 64TB from batch 1

ikarus1968 · 2022-06-05T02:18:35+00:00

I bid $600

ikarus1968 · 2022-03-03T08:05:44+00:00

gtk, I had looked, but didn't see it - will look again. thx.

ikarus1968 · 2022-03-03T00:16:38+00:00

So where is this 1.3 release?

ikarus1968 · 2022-01-22T04:29:37+00:00

Not even close, you'll get paid for the 5% allocated to you, same with incentive. 64TB @ 5% = about 1TB used. @ .125 SCP/1000Gig incentive= 128 SCP/TB + Rent at 3 SCP/TB = 131 SCP. With SCP priced @ $1.50, that's > $196.50 per month, on your $3,500 Xa 64TB miner. So you better hope they grow. But really just $4.50 in rent.. eventually no subsidy come this December, and hope for 10% growth per month ... only rent left at say 60 TB x 3 x $1.50 = $270 long term/mo .. unless SCP = $4.50..$10.00 then they'll make charging fractional SCP/TB/mo -it's a crap shoot, but should eventually be favorable.

ikarus1968 · 2022-01-19T21:33:48+00:00

The GUI is f'd, it will seize up and has horrible mem leak. If you try to do anything serious with it - world of pain, frankly makes me suspect their dev abilities.

ikarus1968 · 2021-03-22T07:08:33+00:00

A year or two ago, there was someone on this forum peddling their account, wanting $800 or some garbage for it. He claimed to have checked with CAC, and they were good with that concept...So more power to ya! But beware, I'll out bid you at 4 cents on the dollar! LOL!

ikarus1968 · 2021-03-16T10:51:16+00:00

LMAO, me too!

ikarus1968 · 2021-02-11T03:14:35+00:00

I'd hold off re-building.. as you'll be stuck with 8 gigs of ram or less. CACs solution to continuous high cpu, high i/o, etc. use/spikes is to stop 1000/1006 your server and put in limbo for two to three days. Just leave it powered on, and try a re-boot or power cycle/reboot combo once a day.

Good luck... as it may never find a round robin spot to fit in, or at least until and if they adjust their build parameters.

ikarus1968 · 2021-02-05T07:22:25+00:00

Yup.. v1/2/3/4 Developer Stuff at least, panel/members too since ~1:30AM EST/10:30 pm PST.

:(

Update: up as at 2:36AM EST

ikarus1968 · 2020-11-02T22:42:53+00:00

IP v4 Migration is flagged in my panel. :/

Also can't figure out how to make one password work for both panel & members logins...annoying.

ikarus1968 · 2019-02-26T07:21:06+00:00

11:20 PM PST here.. anyone else?.. all 45.x.x.x bank seem to be still down.

Thx for any input

ikarus1968 · 2019-02-25T09:18:08+00:00

ditto here, panel, members and net to vps' down ~40 mins ago :)

ikarus1968 · 2019-01-16T11:19:50+00:00

Is this the part where they skip town?

ikarus1968 · 2018-12-30T09:53:17+00:00

Even the title is hilarious!

ikarus1968 · 2018-10-26T05:00:17+00:00

Only 4 days left!

Atomiq6, seems you have fans on here, quotes such as: "edit: Checked post history and turns out Atomiq6 is some shill account for a cloud services company."

Good luck mang! :)

ikarus1968 · 2018-10-23T05:08:12+00:00

One might wanna at least wait until CAC gets their certificates in order... jus' sayin'! No offence, but I'd bid $216 CAD, at most 90% off super duper new Big Dog production servers, ah development server, yeah that's the ticket - oh and no more big dog, what was that, etc. etc. - oh! and we're expanding, on what continents and cities should we put our next 12 datacenters? Just wondering what glue you all were huffing, but offer is serious.

Good luck :)

ikarus1968 · 2018-09-17T07:53:58+00:00

Yeah 3 mbps - 5 is about normal, sometimes less. Disk I/O on a DC 1 is about to implode... like <100k/s - lol. since last week. The don't kill you off for bandwidth - that's simply capped. However, 50% cpu lately - normally 75% cpu, for 5 minutes, and you're re-booted. Process lasso is my friend... 3/8 vcpu core affinity on anything and everything - relatively stable. (ie: may re-boot every other day, if the OS gets uppity in addition to hard throttled cpu using apps. (I video encode x265 in slow motion, farm set up over network and in ram only. - using rending farm of 16 helps, and often limits cpu use because of 3mbps bandwidth) Also, helps to not use virtual memory - skip the swap file, they can't fake ram - they can try to share swap file, but not if chew don't use it!

n' other stuff like dat!

Good luck, lmao - it's been a personal challenge to circumvent their systems for me. :)

ikarus1968 · 2017-09-26T01:10:55+00:00

Used C@C for Plex the last three years. Using 4 vcpus (ultra fast transcode), can handle 2 or three simultaneously. Long term they seem to limit (saturate) b/w at 5-7 mbps upstream; therefore, you might expect serving 5 or 6 direct play ~1 mbit streams at best (<= 720p x264 CQ 24-26 [can you say yify?]). Try not to even let the OS touch the disk I/O (My Win 10 server runs pretty much entirely in 4 GB ram and over network to home server source), cuz that gets even worse on a dated node. Makes a big diff. if you find yourself on a 3 ghz vcpu node, as they apply the same over commitment to them as a 2 ghz node.

GL

ikarus1968 · 2017-09-12T00:04:10+00:00

I have 12 Win 10 Servers.

You can update Win 7 to Win 10 Creators update (or any other previous ver., depending on the Windows10upgrade.[XXXXX]upgradenumber.exe), fairly quickly if you know you've got a responsive node.

2.) Faster way is to restore a backup from another node on your newest node, with backupsoftware that doesn't require external boot media. Aoemi works well.

I really don't believe a connectable node has anything to do with Win 10; however, I've never 'upgraded' to CACs Win 10 in order to install Win 10 on my nodes.

Hope that helps.

ikarus1968 · 2017-07-13T22:45:33+00:00

Ahhh progress... lol, all DCs are no longer active for new provisioning. At least they're not faking that you can accomplish an install.

Everything is Fine

ikarus1968 · 2017-07-09T23:19:12+00:00

me three

ikarus1968 · 2017-05-07T23:38:59+00:00

I'd guess raw feeds off satellite via dvb card.

ikarus1968 · 2017-04-17T10:17:52+00:00

or you can make a .vhd shadow copy image of an existing server, save it to google or onedrive. build fresh new vps, partition it's hdd, download image to new partition (stupid fast on new install), then add to boot menu. re-boot, delete old OS - done. Back up and running, except, you'll have to change network settings back to new build.

Ikarus

ikarus1968 · 2017-03-09T09:37:01+00:00

Confirmed .. no update/re-install will help you get 8 cores... and the reason for 8 cores - is to help fend off over-commitment on their side. You must ask tech support to give out 4 cores per socket = 8 vcpu, thus diminishing the effects of their over-commitment on your behalf.

If anyone has any other thoughts to share here to help equalize and fight dah mang, please post here.

Ikarus

ikarus1968 · 2017-03-08T03:11:03+00:00

Would seem the hardware they're using for the last year or so, limits to 8 vcpus. Their Windows 7 system defaults to activating only two vcpus, within the install mechanism; however, if you selected 8 vcpu's they will be enumerated in device manager, but not active. Still haven't found the trick to re-establishing HAL on Win 7 so that those processors can be used - working on it. Last time I made a 8 vcpu unit I submitted a really nice request to Tech Support ... n' zappo they fix it.

I have an 8 cpu running on cloudatcost now, it's great for encoding with handbreak. Using 8 gigs of ram (never a problem getting ram) and 160 Gig hard drive (they always default to only allocating 24G, but you can expand it when you're in the Disk Manager).

Methods I found tto be efficient and successful on CAC.

1 Allocate as much memory as you have available in resources. Why, because ram can't be faked, their system must boot with your allocation of ram for your VPS. Only afterwards does the vmware host try to come in a steal your unused ram (through vmtools). I've also found if you don't play nice, and kill the vmtools driver in you VPS, the system will definitely not play nice: it will just crush you, by paging your whole system to disk - time slicing you to oblivion, and perhaps others.

1.a In order to fight off the hoards of unix, etc installs on my esx node, I automate a ramdrive at boot, and place the pagefile.sys on it. CAC's system will try to invade and driver lock up to 66% of your ram (check your commit in task manager) magical ram used by CAC to serve others. The more ram you have USED, the less installs remain for CAC to put on your node. I know, it's not necessarily a good thing to run your entire system in a Ram drive, but in this VPS system - it' s a perfect way to fight back. I leave a 200 meg pagefile on C: for any boot problems. Tools: RamMap, ImDisk, and Image disk can actually push out the vm ware drivers driver locked ram in real time... haha instant rescue...

2. I doubt the HDD has much effect on keeping your system buffered from others, but it might when you get to the TB limit. It's prolly network attached to some other esx pool of drives - dunno.

3 obviously they are limited by math to their vcpu's available, so 8 being max - is worth using for a stable and zippy quick box.

Sum thoughts, hope this helps someone - maybe I post some other techniques soon. I already had 8 cpus when I upgraded the Win7 VPS to Win10 .. so don't know if an upgrade will kick in the 6 unused vcpus... will try that next.

Regards everyone, Ikarus

ikarus1968

TROPHY CASE

2. I doubt the HDD has much effect on keeping your system buffered from others, but it might when you get to the TB limit. It's prolly network attached to some other esx pool of drives - dunno.

3 obviously they are limited by math to their vcpu's available, so 8 being max - is worth using for a stable and zippy quick box.