Thanks again for the nice, informative welcome. I've had experience with mining. I had bought mining capacity there. It wasn't so productive.
Don't lose hope just yet 
. This forum got a plenty info about mining. Here are the boards: 1) For btc: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.0 2) For alts: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0. Good luck. Just another simple reminder, do not create a thread if you feel that your question already existed before or very common. Learn to dig previous threads if necessary.