Good update, I just want to clarify a few things. Do you have final pricing from BlockC on the machines? Also what are the final offers you got from the most competitive hosters?

I also agree with anyone who is not making payment will have their pool settings switched to mine to the hosts account until their account is back in good standing, that is the only fair thing to do.

From what I read you used to run miners from your home but it is only in the last couple of months that you created cryptoboreas to be a real hosting company instead of your own personal mine. I am sorry if I misunderstood.


How is it not relevant? We are discussing a group buy and where to host the miners. If I participate in this GB I will want the best deal for hosting. Since you are only now looking for someone to design your mine software that suggests your operation is still in its infancy. You can call it irrelevant if you want but I (and I think many others here) are not just interested in hosting price only but all other factors such as going with a well established host vs one that is just starting up or going with a host with people on site and a fast response vs a site that sits empty 99% of the time and requires someone to make a special trip.


I have only operated a couple of miners ever but in my experience it is not uncommon to encounter problems that a reboot doesn't solve. This depends on the equipment as well of course as some manufacturers make more reliable machines than others.

When you say GND is undercut does that mean you spoke with your contact again recently? From what I read on here it looks like they offer very similar pricing to CB except that in order to get good rates with CB you need to prepay months in advance. Did you get an updated quote from GND for 6 months prepayment? Did they refuse to match or come close to the CB price? If they are asking too much money then I would not be interested in using them but if GND and CB are competing with each other we could let them fight each other to see who will give us the best price until one of them gives up.

If GND matched CB's price, would CB drop their price further and give us an even better deal?

Sorry I made a mistake in my earlier post. I accidentally linked back to this very thread when I was trying to link to the thread in which allinvain is looking for someone to write software to allow him to run CB remotely.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1239603

In general I am all for us securing the best hosting rate but there are other considerations as well.

I am very concerned that this cryptoboreas company has come out of nowhere and appears to have no customers except this carlos guy. Assuming their operation is legit, the fact that they are doing this all with nobody on site makes me worry. Switched PDUs are a great idea if a machine needs to be rebooted. What if a fan burns out or a machine stops responding to reboots? Do we just suffer 100% downtime until allinvain has enough time to make the trek to his facility?

What's also concerning is that although he claims to run the place remotely he apparently doesn't even have that part of the mine operating yet and is looking for someone who knows how to program to build him a system to run a mine remotely.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1171705.120

So from what I can see, GND is an established hoster who have been around for a while with good prices and no customer complaints. Cryptoboreas is only a month or two old and also offers good prices but potentially at a massive service cost.

The CB price is good but requires 6 months of prepayment. I bet if we approached GND with CB's price they would match it or come pretty close so we can take advantage of the best price AND the best service. If we can get some assurances CB is actually legit I would really consider going with them if their price is significantly better than GNDs but I don't think the CB risk is worth taking if it's only saving us a buck or two a kw.

I also think torepia has a good idea about getting everything in writing.

I am fine with philipma and dogie having the keys since they are long-established members with good reputations. Thank you also to armedmilitia for doing all the legwork to put this deal together and I look forward to seeing final pricing.

The $95/kW you are currently being charged (that any purchaser will have to pay if the machine isn't shipped) is ridiculously expensive given that there are a number of hosts currently offering prices that START in the $60-$70/kW range (which blows toom.im's BEST price of $80/kW out of the water). You're probably going to have to ship it if you want to unload it.

I have tried accessing the following websites from your list which are down and it looks like the hoster is no longer around.

Digital Fortress  http://dfcolo.com/bitcoin_terraminer_hosting/
MichColo  http://www.michigan-colocation.com/index.php/server-colocation/bitcoin-miner-hosting
NinjaColo http://ninjacolo.com/colocation.html
ContractMine http://contractmine.com/asic-hosting/
CryptoBoreas http://www.cryptoboreas.com/

Hello, I am searching for miner hosting and have been looking through your list and had some comments.

It seems many of these hosts are outdated and in need of removal. For example at the top of your list under Canada I only see two that still appear to exist. allinvain's hosting and great north data.

bitcoinserverhosting and cryptominer.ca webpages no longer exist and blacksun's pricing is so out of date ($160 a month for an sp10?) I assume they are no longer working either.

I have not managed to check all the list but scanning the prices many more seem so high they must have also stopped updating because they are out of business. example bitsmelter wants $120/kw/mth which is far out of touch from the double digit prices being offered by other hosters now.

the asicspace website is still up but in this thread called STAY AWAY FROM ASICSPACE https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1036376.0  their customers report they can't even contact them. their profile says their last post was 5 months ago in april: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=342439;sa=showPosts

I appreciate that you have put lots of work into this list and I do not mean to impose but is it possible to clean this list up and remove old/outdated entries? perhaps hosters should have to post an update every 6 months to stay on the list (even if the update is that there is no price change)? this might also be too much to ask but perhaps could they be sorted by price? it might be easier to link to a google spreadsheet or something similar that would allow people to sort by country or price or whatever column they choose.

It would make it easier for someone like myself who is looking for hosting.

thank you again sir for all your work, it is much appreciated