Looks like the issues have been resolved and we're back up and running.  Thank you all for your patience and happy mining!

Looks like the issues have been resolved and we're back up and running.  Thank you all for your patience and happy mining!

Hey guys, I just got off the phone with my hosting provider (OVH) and they are experiencing some issues with one of their VPS clouds which CharityMiningPools is hosted on.  No ETA was provided, but I was assured that they are aware of the issue and hope to have things restored shortly.  Sorry for the inconvenience, since I switched over to OVH I haven't had any issues with their service up until now and the pool has been a LOT more stable then when running with DigitialOcean.

I will post when they have resolved the issue and when I get things back up and running.

Thanks,
CharityMiningPools

Hey guys, I just got off the phone with my hosting provider (OVH) and they are experiencing some issues with one of their VPS clouds which CharityMiningPools is hosted on.  No ETA was provided, but I was assured that they are aware of the issue and hope to have things restored shortly.  Sorry for the inconvenience, since I switched over to OVH I haven't had any issues with their service up until now and the pool has been a LOT more stable then when running with DigitialOcean.

I also own and operate CryptoBlox.com which does have a mining portal for DNotes based on NOMP which allows you to mine directly to your wallet.  This site is luckily on a different VPS Cloud and is up and running if you you need a place to point your miners while OVH resolves their issues affecting CharityMiningPools.  http://mine.cryptoblox.com/  I've removed the usual %1 fee from here for you all you use free of charge while Charity is down.

I will post when they have resolved the issue and when I get things back up and running.

Thanks,
CharityMiningPools

Hey guys, It's been a while since I posted any updates.  Below are the Charitable earnings collected from the users mining at CharityMiningPools.  All Donations have gone to the BitGive Foundation and the Water Project.  You can check our Fund Raising page at https://thewaterproject.org/community/profile/charityminingpools.  

Anyone interested in donating a small portion to charity while mining please visit https://note.charityminingpools.com and create an account at our MPOS based Mining Pool.

Total Donations Raised and Donated to the BitGive Foundation and The Water Project: 0.34538877 BTC

September: 351 NOTE (0.00198613 BTC) To The Water Project
TX ID: d1b00464b5b9f7bf419b25a7db8d8e2464744386df6346d8fbe30ae8c3ae5007

August: 217 NOTE (0.00208255 BTC) To The Water Project
TX ID: a98edd1e2f556ce5191ef8ebb1bfdd15d03552752259cb8b5f39d4a398c9bdb7

July: 254 NOTE (0.00351743 BTC) To The Water Project
TX ID: 6b465f6a33b5de1be212bb7a75a4bba9ac374f45ba5ea7c18f5ed983481fb2cf

June: 3,443 NOTE (0.01205050 BTC) To BitGive Foundation
TX ID: bb591dfc563cf24f6e7dc506ab0bc867a4afa7cd16b0c865a7f8a46af42366f7

May: 74,361 NOTE (0.14500395 BTC) To BitGive Foundation
TX ID: 51726c3611fcd32d62d7dd744e2d06099aa89716ff9b78f21ac844b52b9ea374

April: 33,715 NOTE (0.07590374 BTC) To BitGive Foundation
TX ID: a7683a120750b500bb8a4e4987a26de97f2751c9ad0ef9708da8e56a529621b3

March: 83,495 NOTE (0.01001940 BTC) To BitGive Foundation
TX ID: Sent to BitGive Foundation (Missing TX ID after Server rebuild, will search Wallet History)

February: 29,690 NOTE (0.09482507 BTC) To BitGive Foundation
TX ID:  Sent to BitGive Foundation (Missing TX ID after Server rebuild, will search Wallet History)

Hey guys, It's been a while since I posted any updates.  Below are the Charitable earnings collected from the users mining at CharityMiningPools.  All Donations go to the Water Project.  You can check our Fund Raising page at https://thewaterproject.org/community/profile/charityminingpools. 

Anyone interested in donating a small portion to charity while mining please visit https://nobl.charityminingpools.com and create an account at our MPOS based Mining Pool.

Total Donations Raised and Donated to TheWaterProject: 0.07812599 BTC

September: 68,424 NOBL (0.00478970 BTC)
TX ID: 6da52e0100c965854b21d7742e0ed08a53d43254aef71b5290140f5234dd4c2f

August: 65,183 NOBL (0.00456281 BTC)
TX ID: 3f26ed1704bc90a272037075d3e541810336f974692039d87ca38fe9efc7e184

July: 43,862 NOBL (0.00701803 BTC)
TX ID: c4f211e7bf76dd0aca4e5497ad2f5749514930a6a4de3a9e7961b64fee1c8559

June: 87,790 NOBL (0.01316850 BTC)
TX ID: ba7bb691bc1da5ef88e8b1e932ac92c70c805d4274b33321e999105c6ac748fb

May: 103,037 NOBL (0.01957703 BTC)
TX ID: cd8688170198e8f2c7f9f79db8ee7c3bdd34d6365fdac6295a41abc27022a349

April: 24,885 NOBL (0.00970554 BTC)
TX ID: 1d71161782086bf0950da73de753d66e0b067972a9c84e4b00d69c289dda5fee

March: 12,317 NOBL (0.00172438 BTC)
TX ID: dfb4ec1b1a7ebc0633d25ff5114d019c1de3f40e7d7dd65a7bb63f4603359ecd

February: 42,964 NOBL (0.01758000 BTC)
TX ID: 75a54a56b0a1a58f57a867329c3effcb02c499ba5b48decedfa0ae681c930341

Alright guys, we're finally back up and running.  Sorry for the delay. Had to rebuild the server with a new provider and import the existing DB.  Good news is that we've upgraded our servers in the process.  

Alright guys, we're finally back up and running.  Sorry for the delay. Had to rebuild the server with a new provider and import the existing DB.  Good news is that we've upgraded our servers in the process.  

Hey guys, we're working on getting the pool back up and running.  Switched to a new hosting company last week that has since screwed me over by suspending my VMs due to "CPU Abuse".  Why would you offer services for VM hosting when you don't allow your clients to use 25% of the promised CPU use on them is beyond me.  Anyways, rebuilding at our old providers and should have them up in a few hours.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

CharityMiningPools

Hey guys, we're working on getting the pool back up and running.  Switched to a new hosting company last week that has since screwed me over by suspending my VMs due to "CPU Abuse".  Why would you offer services for VM hosting when you don't allow your clients to use 25% of the promised CPU use on them is beyond me.  Anyways, rebuilding at our old providers and should have them up in a few hours.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

CharityMiningPools

Sorry for the delay.  The payout CRON had stopped running.  It has since been re-started and all payouts have been processed.  Best way to contact me is via BitCoinTalk right now until I get my support center site back up and running.  I've migrated to a new provider and have to complete the support center setup still.  Priority was to move the pools over with little to no interruption.  I expect to have the support center re-opened within the next few days.

nobl.charityminingpools.com

Please note that we have raised our fees and donations by 0.25% to match our other pools and hope to raise more for charity!

Come mine while making a difference.  

Total Donations Raised for Charity so far in July: 10,146 NOBL - To the WaterProject
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in June: 87,790 NOBL - To the WaterProject (87,790 @ 0.00000015 = 0.0131685 BTC (Rounded up to 0.02 BTC by CharityMiningPools)
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in May: 103,037 NOBL - To the WaterProject
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in April: 24,885 NOBL - To the WaterProject
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in March: 12,317 NOBL - To the WaterProject
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in February: 43,288 NOBL - To the BitGive Foundation

Track or send more Donations from our WaterProject Fundraisng Page at The Water Project


Mandatory 0.75% donation fee goes to the The Water Project this month.  We welcome and encourage you to donate more to a good cause.
Check out our Campaign Page if you would like to directly donate to the Water Project!

SSL, STRATUM, VARDIFF, Datacenter Redundant Server Farm, Load Balanced Servers, Frequent Backups, DDOS Protection
0.75% Mandatory Donation fee to a Good Cause, 0.75% Pool Fees

Cheers!
CharityMiningPools

note.charityminingpools.com

Come mine while making a difference.

Total Donations Raised in July so far: 92 - Really need to get our hash power back up to where it was before!
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in June: 3,443 NOTE (Experienced some pool related issues that resulted in a week of shutdown)
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in May: 74,361 NOTE (50k was Donated directly From Dyna)
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in April: 33,715 NOTE
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in March: 83,495 NOTE
Total Donations Raised and Donated to Charity in February: 29,690 NOTE
TX IDs and BTC breakdown provided on the Pool site.

Mandatory 0.75% donation fee goes to the BitGive Foundation this month.  We welcome and encourage you to donate more to a good cause.

SSL, STRATUM, VARDIFF, Datacenter Redundant Server Farm, Load Balanced Servers, Frequent Backups, DDOS Protection
0.75% Mandatory Donation fee to a Good Cause, 0.75% Pool Fees

Who Are We?
CharityMiningPools was created to allow miners the ability to mine coins while still knowing that their hashing power is going towards something good.  Our goal is to provide a positive and reliable service while delivering a small portion of the proceeds to a deserving recipient.  Plans are in the works to allow individual miners to choose where they would like to donate to based on a pool of available recipients.

How Does This Work?
All coins mined at CharityMiningPools will require a mandatory Donation fee.  This donation fee will be collected and donated to the designated charitable recipient for that given month.  Though we only require a minimum 0.75% Donation fee, we welcome and encourage our miners to raise the stakes and donate more to a good cause.

Cheers!
CharityMiningPools

note.charityminingpools.com - NOW UP AND FINDING BLOCKS!

NOTE: Sorry for the delay in getting back up, we wanted to make sure that the database was completely cleaned up while still maintaining our existing user accounts and balances.  Everything is now up and running again, your accounts and coins have remained untouched and ready for mining!  If you experience any problems feel free to PM me.

Come mine while making a difference.

Mandatory 0.75% donation fee goes to the BitGive Foundation this month.  We welcome and encourage you to donate more to a good cause.

SSL, STRATUM, VARDIFF, Datacenter Redundant Server Farm, Load Balanced Servers, Frequent Backups, DDOS Protection
0.75% Mandatory Donation fee to a Good Cause, 0.75% Pool Fees

Who Are We?
CharityMiningPools was created to allow miners the ability to mine coins while still knowing that their hashing power is going towards something good.  Our goal is to provide a positive and reliable service while delivering a small portion of the proceeds to a deserving recipient.

How Does This Work?
All coins mined at CharityMiningPools will require a mandatory Donation fee.  This donation fee will be collected and donated to the designated charitable recipient for that given month.  Though we only require a minimum 0.75% Donation fee, we welcome and encourage our miners to raise the stakes and donate more to a good cause.

Cheers!
CharityMiningPools

Hey all, I have manually processed the missed payouts that had failed to process due to being on the wrong chain on the 20th of June.  Any payouts that had occurred (Manual or Auto) did not get processed yet still show a transaction number in your transaction history.  The time frame of these were all June 20th between 16:25 and 23:45.  The manual payouts listed below cover those specific payouts and you should be receiving them shortly if not already.  These will not show up in the pool transactions which is why I have included them here because they were all manually processed.  If I happen to have missed anyone please PM me and I'll quickly track it down if you can provide me your username on the pool and the date and time of the payout but I'm pretty confident that this covers them all.

I am also looking at reimbursing those that were mining during this time as no valid coins would have been mined yet your has power would have been used.  Just going through the list of miners now and should have some coins sent out to those of you that were active during that time.

btw, our stratum is still down as we are still working on getting the database cleaned up so that the CRONS will run properly.  Sorry for the inconvience caused but we want to make sure everything is in line and working properly before going live again.

No root cause has been found, we were on the latest version and also using the same 3 addnodes listed in the OP.

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Hey DNotes, doesn't look like the Block Explorer is syncing anymore either and is stuck at 177420.   Tried restarting it but still no go.

I will hold off on sending out the payouts from Charity until we get the connection issues resolved.  Stratum will also remain down as well until all issues are resolved.

Hey CryptoBomg, I've resent the payout for you and confirmed the transaction.  Should get it shortly.

TX ID 321d5a46b187f23a3efa3df44b69e98399e0c68c9b0bc016c65cbfa9e714b5a5
address Di7Yog34dFay9NPjFj65ZcgbmygPaVQJse


NOTE: I have determined the start time of the problem and will be paying all other transactions tomorrow night once I compile the list and will provide new transaction IDs for all of them here.  It appears that if you had a Manual Payout or Auto Payout between 15:10 and 23:40 EST on the 20th the transactions would have tried to go out on the wrong chain and thus no coins would have been ever been received.  All of these transactions will be manually processed by me and a complete list will be provided as they will not appear in the Pool Transactions.

The stratum will remain shutdown until further notice while we work on resolving the invalid blocks in the database.  No ETA at this time.

I have confirmed and verified that any new payouts processed from the pool are working normally.


Keep you all updated as we make progress.

No worries, looks like I'm going to have to leave the stratum shutdown until I get the database sorted out and clean up all the invalid blocks.  The Findblock and BlockUpdate crons won't run right now.  Payout CRON does however appear to be running fine so your payout should still go though.

This could take a while so please switch to another pool while we sort things out.  Sorry for the issues.

PLEASE SWITCH YOUR MINERS TO ANOTHER POOL UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE WHILE WE WORK THROUGH THE DATABASE ISSUES CAUSED BY THE CHAIN FORK!  THE STRATUM MAY BE DOWN FOR THE WEEKEND.  ALL COINS ARE SAFE!

Sorry for the inconvenience caused, we are still looking for a root cause to this.

Looks like it's syncing correctly now.  It's in line with the explorer now.  Not sure how this happened since we are running the latest version and using the same addnodes.  Must have picked up a node somewhere that got us off target somehow.  Think I may lock it down to your 3 nodes going forward, or those 3 and a few other "Known" good nodes.

Will start the stratum Server back up shortly, need to figure out the database side of things since it already thinks that we found the current blocks up until 176472.

Sorry for the problems guys, I truly have no clue how it went off target and will reimburse anyone that appears to have lost anything due to the incorrect blocks.  Please PM me if you notice any issues or missed payouts.


CMP

Ok, at about 100k blocks now while rebuilding the chain for Charity.  Will keep you posted.