Until they have failover for purchases in the production environment they will not be running purchases at night.
Well, Im not privy to how gpumax works internally, so I may be missing something, but clearly they already have a robust form of failover: the private pools.
If something goes wrong processing leased shares, just direct the miners back to their private pools. Thats not worse than what it is now, in fact, its the exact same thing - except if it there is no problem, you can process leases even if pirate sleeps
.Im sure there is a good reason why this isnt done, I just wonder what it is.
My understanding is they want to monitor all the purchases because a plethora of things can go wrong that does not cause failover to private pool as of yet... like if the purchase goes to a pool that can't handle the load, then we get lots of stales/rejects, so he wants to monitor that so our mining time isn't wasted.... here's what Pirate said a few months ago:
It's not really a problem as much as it is people buying shares on pools that can't handle the load which we are still fine turning to protect our miners. Updates coming soon will address this and make buyers pay for rejects on pools that have issues so the miners are not penalized for it.
EDIT: We get a lot of pools ops testing their system which is not something miners should have to pay for with rejects and stales.