Quote from: MrBitcoinMiner on November 10, 2015, 11:35:22 AM

In general I am all for us securing the best hosting rate but there are other considerations as well.

I am very concerned that this cryptoboreas company has come out of nowhere and appears to have no customers except this carlos guy. Assuming their operation is legit, the fact that they are doing this all with nobody on site makes me worry. Switched PDUs are a great idea if a machine needs to be rebooted. What if a fan burns out or a machine stops responding to reboots? Do we just suffer 100% downtime until allinvain has enough time to make the trek to his facility?

What's also concerning is that although he claims to run the place remotely he apparently doesn't even have that part of the mine operating yet and is looking for someone who knows how to program to build him a system to run a mine remotely.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1171705.120

So from what I can see, GND is an established hoster who have been around for a while with good prices and no customer complaints. Cryptoboreas is only a month or two old and also offers good prices but potentially at a massive service cost.

The CB price is good but requires 6 months of prepayment. I bet if we approached GND with CB's price they would match it or come pretty close so we can take advantage of the best price AND the best service. If we can get some assurances CB is actually legit I would really consider going with them if their price is significantly better than GNDs but I don't think the CB risk is worth taking if it's only saving us a buck or two a kw.

I also think torepia has a good idea about getting everything in writing.

I am fine with philipma and dogie having the keys since they are long-established members with good reputations. Thank you also to armedmilitia for doing all the legwork to put this deal together and I look forward to seeing final pricing.

We have been around for a while - far more than a month or two. We have customers other than "this carlos guy" but most of them are not active on this forum.

The system which we're seeking is to automate the management process not to "run a mine remotely." The less we have to do manually the more time we have to sip margaritas on a sandy beach!

The 6 month price does require pre-payment, but I'm sure we can offer that on a shorter 3 month pre-paid term if you're really nice to us

If you're super nice and bring in a lot of killowatts we may even do more! We like to build long mutually beneficial and stable relationships with serious miners and we will do everything possible to keep said miners happy.