We have been around for a while - far more than a month or two.
From what I read you used to run miners from your home but it is only in the last couple of months that you created cryptoboreas to be a real hosting company instead of your own personal mine. I am sorry if I misunderstood.
You linking to that thread is irrelevant to the scope of this thread.
How is it not relevant? We are discussing a group buy and where to host the miners. If I participate in this GB I will want the best deal for hosting. Since you are only now looking for someone to design your mine software that suggests your operation is still in its infancy. You can call it irrelevant if you want but I (and I think many others here) are not just interested in hosting price only but all other factors such as going with a well established host vs one that is just starting up or going with a host with people on site and a fast response vs a site that sits empty 99% of the time and requires someone to make a special trip.
As for the fan burning out concern--yes, that's true. Is it worth the cost of a faster response time? I'm not sure, since as of right now gnd is undercut by far--I think we'd recoup any losses from downtime because we're paying much less for hosting. Once again, for future buys we can always revisit GND--they should have their datacenter expanded by then.
I have only operated a couple of miners ever but in my experience it is not uncommon to encounter problems that a reboot doesn't solve. This depends on the equipment as well of course as some manufacturers make more reliable machines than others.
When you say GND is undercut does that mean you spoke with your contact again recently? From what I read on here it looks like they offer very similar pricing to CB except that in order to get good rates with CB you need to prepay months in advance. Did you get an updated quote from GND for 6 months prepayment? Did they refuse to match or come close to the CB price? If they are asking too much money then I would not be interested in using them but if GND and CB are competing with each other we could let them fight each other to see who will give us the best price until one of them gives up.
If GND matched CB's price, would CB drop their price further and give us an even better deal?