I didn't dispute that kano had better upside with the way this is set up.  I was just thinking that there may be a reason other than bad luck that there has been no block found for 9 days now.  I was just throwing out an idea that maybe some other DDOS attack or something was happening that we are not aware of. I do not mean on the web server, I mean on the backend ie stratum server or upstream of the node which affects the ability to break open one of them 12.5 Tonne Golden nuggets!