Quote from: Hotmetal on December 20, 2016, 02:49:36 PM

Quote from: citronick on December 20, 2016, 02:41:27 PM

yes, pix please - always looking forward to learn from Phil.

A lot of capital cost into warehouse solution... but ultimately that's the best if you want to go big and churn hard revenue.

My story started when my wife "threw me out" in favor of extra space at home.... so after 7 x rigs, me and a few buddies started on our mining project (GPU, BTC, X11, Scrypt) where only GPU farm is within our full control. The rest of the mining farm, BTC and Scrypt are hosted in Labrador.

.... but expect to cough up some dough on electricals, cabling, metal racks with wheels, big working desk, temperature controls/fans/digital gauge/remote relay if possible, CCTV, physical security, RAS/Radmin/Teamviewer servers and backup server, big-ass router 48 port and a few smaller routers, broadband, rig-resetter via remote relay - see Tyatanick's SRR, small fridge and microwave oven (trust me you gonna need this)..... the list goes on.... but when all is setup and almost lights out operation, it's all worth it. I only visit my warehouse max 3 times a week. Everything is remote control from home, with 3 x 27" screens on Win10 and my trusty iMac 27" as main desktop and backup for all the wallets.

Now, this time of thing really interests me! Some questions:

* How do you figure out which rigs are using what amount of power since everyone is mining different things?
* Tyatanick's SRR? Do you have a link? (I've tried searching for it, no luck).
* At what point can you retire and just live off the profits of the rigs? (yes, it's a serious question Tongue

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* How big is the entire operation? Have pics etc?

1. Labrador hosting is by kw/h metering (I dont have to worry about PSUs), so doesn't matter which miner uses what, I prepay 3 months in advance to get maximum discounts. They get Hydro power so if you have big time mining operations - you need to go to the cheapest power source to see profits. I get full remote access to the miners and also have my own subnet.

2. SRR - https://simplemining.net/page/simpleRigResetter

3. I retired in Jan 2016 and my group (me and few close buddies) did some serious math .... begged our wives to allow us to do this project -- LOL Grin

--- we made a handsome return during the early ETH and BTC days. We already had about 3GHs ETH GPU farm back then (thanks to Claymore's magic)... that got us going and also got more informed about mining in general - just being smart in when to invest and when to hold coins.

4. My group has 108 x S9s, 120 x Avalon 7s.... about 2 PH farm. About 15GHs X11 farm and small Scrypt farm; 6 x A4s. Let's just say, the BTC & GPU farm pays the cheque..... and the X11 & LTC farm pays the operation (power, rental, etc). So yes, I think me and the group are enjoying our post retirement nicely and most importantly, the spouses are happy to see us learning new stuff/tech/friends... keeping us busy instead of bumming around at home. Grin

5. Apologies my group is paranoid on security and sharing pictures. I am the Adminstrator for the project while the boys manages the Polo accounts, investments and wallets.

6. I did share some basic pics on the GPU farm in this thread. I have started to streamline the GPU farm into Biostar Z170 4-PCI riserless format like Phil's - wished I had started like this earlier on -- it could have been so simple to manage and cheaper, rather than wasting hours troubleshooting why my 5th or 6th GPU doesn't work.... or why that blew the PSU and what not.