I'm just a bit angry as I've tried to reduce the reject rate (to no avail) and even tho he is trying to fix the reject rate, no additional servers are forthcoming to help with the load balancing (util he fixes the code). So its just a bit frustrating having to wait for more than a few hours, with no additional server and what I've tried. You are right I can go elsewhere, so I guess its time to switch to Waffle until the issue(s) are fixed.
At the end of the day, he'll do what he wants to do. Complaint(s) or no complaints.
These servers dont just grow on trees out the back of your house.. although Amazon EC2 makes it easy to setup a server in a region easier than usual, it still takes time to get it setup, test it, get the load balance right, then release it in to the wild and fix any bugs that might araise when he does. never mind the mulitplication of cost. please remember, this pool only started making any serious kinda money in the last few days. lord know what kind of costs he's incurring due to exponential growth.
perhaps you need to step back and have a look at how much effort you're putting into the whole mining side before you bitch about someone thats running a pool.. Mining is easy.. Sys ops isn't..