Stratum disconnect is normal when coins change.
Make sure you don't run anything newer than cgminer 3.5.0 as they added a 5 minute delay for fail-over that could lead to you mining your backup or maybe nothing for up to 5 minutes even though hash cows only dropped out for 10-20 seconds to switch coins.
I like liteguardian as my backup since it's PPS and vardiff you can get a bunch of small shares submitted and payed out immediately while hashcows is prepping work on another coin.
Hi, i've been trying to mine for a few days now, but after the stats came back, i started to get regular stratum timeouts, which completely knocks out my miner and cannot get new blocks to mine.
Is this one of those issues that will be addressed with the new stratum server? i'll keep watching hashcows, but will wait until the service is more reliable before committing more resources. i've only started mining, but i've already lost dozens of shares due to stratum disconnect.