You build once and clone 499 times. Pretty simple actually.
Then you put a script on each server that makes it mine automatically.
I didn't get the 35K right away, I just took some of the money I was making while mining. I starting mining with 500 Amazon EC2 instances when diff was about 8, and then took the winnings to double down on dedicated servers with opteron processors (that perform about 20x better).
So Amazon practically financed my server farm.
Then you put a script on each server that makes it mine automatically.
I didn't get the 35K right away, I just took some of the money I was making while mining. I starting mining with 500 Amazon EC2 instances when diff was about 8, and then took the winnings to double down on dedicated servers with opteron processors (that perform about 20x better).
So Amazon practically financed my server farm.
I use EC2 for my TRC pool, and other Amazon goodies like SQS/SMS etc. Wish I'd known about Primecoin a bit sooner.
I tried running some CC2 instances last night mining primecoin (about 8500 pps each) but even with 20 going, only found one block in a couple hours. Don't think I can break even with that, even with the spot price so low. I'd need a couple blocks per hour.Still, Amazon is pretty amazing and I did finally learn about the @reboot date trick with crontab to make rolling out the auto-starting servers easier.
Edit: And actually, after this experiment, I rolled out some virtual Windows Server 2012 machines to run the ypool miner (about 20 val/h using latest client they provide) but that's way below break even, sadly.