Quote from: two_btc on November 23, 2017, 10:55:36 PM

Quote from: jijikill on November 23, 2017, 09:35:24 PM

I always go with the lower fee one , that's the most important , as block reward is something unpredictable , pool fee is fix

That's a wrong idea in my opinion. I'll explain you why.
We have 1% fee on 2Miners pools.
Let's say there is another pool with 0.5% fee.
8 card mining rig gives 250 MH/s. It is 480$/month on ETH at the moment.
0.5% difference is 2.4$ or 3.5 hours of work. If the pool with lower fee would be down 4 hours a month you will get less reward after all!

We have a lot of cool stuff which makes your work more productive:
- Offline rig notifications are usually paid services. We got them for free.
- Many pools don't pay tx fees from blocks. It could be >3% of the block reward. We pay everything.
Etc. Etc.

Unfortunately, nobody publishes their downtime metrics so this is a difficult metric to base off of. Do you publish your server metrics?