Ok, calling all small miners that would like an injection of h/s for absolutely nothing. I have been in discussions with Upcloud, a relatively new cloud compute company based in London and they have given me access to their servers for testing whilst the Java miner was being developed and released, and working alongside ProgrammerDan, a range of test conditions were setup.

While carrying out this research and testing, I found the interface that Upcloud uses very simple and easy to use. Whilst it doesn't offer the same options as some of the bigger companies like Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platform, they certainly are trying and have been excellent with regards to support and advice.

With this in mind, I am providing a guide so that absolutely anyone can give themselves that added boost to their h/s for free.

First of all, it would be very much appreciated if you used the following link - https://www.upcloud.com/register/?promo=59R28E . This is a referral link that gives new sign-ups $25 free to try out their service. Yes, ARO does receive some credit also, but this is used to provide servers for software testing on Upcloud VM's. I do also pay out of my own money for server time. This link just helps absorb some of those costs.

Ok, once you have signed up you will be presented with your Dashboard page -

http://i68.tinypic.com/30hmvcx.jpg

First we need to do the important stuff like setting up startup scripts and SSH keys.

I will walk you through how to create and use SSH keys in both Windows and Linux.

For Windows

Download and install the required version of PuTTY from these links - 32-bit - https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w32/putty-0.70-installer.msi
                                                                                                                64-bit - https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty-64bit-0.70-installer.msi