kano- I exhort you, please go with your gut, instead of catering to the masses (I include myself in this group) who don't quite understand some of the intricacies and nuances that you and CK do concerning mining pools and bitcoin mining in general. This is not meant to be disrespectful to anyone in this thread who has made suggestions, I just want to remind everyone that this pool is run by the developers of cgminer, and I really don't think that there are too many people out there who have more knowledge on how to run the most efficient, secure pool, which is why I have dedicated 100% of my hashing power to this pool (when it's not being leased out on MRR, which should be rather rare now that I've increased the BTC/MH/DAY). Prior to discovering this pool within the last week, I exclusively mined with Eligius, which IMHO was probably the best option out of the "big" mining pools, up until now .