0% fee pools accept donations. They probably might have their own miners mining in those pools. Otherwise no point in running the pool at loss unless its the dev running the pool for his own coin.
I see. Accepting donations indeed would be another acceptable option.
I wonder if we can get people who run mining pools to contribute to this discussion.
Is profitable to run a mining pool?I'm imagining if i'm a web developer it would be easy to configure and host a server, right?
Easier said than done. I'm not a pool owner but I understand that there are more to it than just configuring the pool apart from the hosting ofcourse. One wrong move and your reputation will take a big hit.