OK so I went for it with a fee of 5.019 sat/byte. total fee was around $4.77 and the transaction first confirmed after 6 mins. I'm very pleased!

So now that I have my private key in Electrum, I can set the fee to what I want. Looking at https://estimatefee.com/ if I am happy with to confirm within 144 blocks ( ~1440 min), I can pay 5 satoshis/byte which will work out around $4.79.

Is there any reason why it would be a bad thing to let my confirmation take this long? I'm transferring between my own wallets, so it's not like trust is an issue.

Thanks for all the advice. I don't need access to the BTC - my motivation was to move it to a new wallet as Multibit Classic is no longer supported. Now that I've managed to import the private key into Electrum, I'm happy.

I intend to keep this BTC for as long as possible as I think Bitcoin will carry on increasing and if it goes up a couple more orders of magnitude it could make a big difference to my life.

Also, the guide I'd read about how to claim my BCH said I ought to move BTC to a different wallet first just to make sure - any advice there?

Thanks for confirming I was reading it correctly. I'll keep an eye on the transaction fee then and wait until it drops.

I'm trying to migrate away from my Multibit Classic wallet. Recommendations I've read say to setup a new wallet with other software (I'm trying Electrum) and then send the BTC to the new address. I've got about 0.95 BTC.
It's not been easy because the transaction fee in Multibit Classic is set too low, so I've had to get the private key to my wallet into Electrum (either sweep or additional wallet). This has been complicated because Electrum doesn't like the format of the key from Multibit Classic so I've had to find a website to decode it.
I am now in a position to send the BTC, but when I preview the transaction, I see my transaction fee is 0.08BTC - that's around $300! It would seem it's because the transaction size is large, as I collected by BTC through altcoin mining a couple of years ago, so there are lots of source transactions (141) which makes my transaction around 22KB. Would that sound right? See below.
https://preview.ibb.co/iGo145/bitcoin_high_fee.png
Can this be right? I can't believe I'm being charged $300 in transaction fees! Please help!

I've been using betarigs since pretty early on - have done 35 rentals now and I'm pretty happy with it. As long as I keep the rig stable, it pretty much runs itself and gives me a better return than a multi pool.

A couple of features I have been thinking about recently would be :
1. To disallow rentals starting at certain times. Some guy the other night started a 3hr rental at 2am and then complained I didn't respond to support requests!
2. To be able to give partial refunds after the rental has finished. It's great to be able to give free hours if a renter has a problem, but you have to do it during the rent. Sometimes if their issue only surfaces towards the end of their rental, the only option is to ask them for their BTC address so I can issue a partial refund. It would be great if this could be integrated into the website somehow.

Still - a great service, but the improvements need to keep coming or someone else will pop up who is willing to do it better.

Just to let you know I've build my first proper rig now and happily have mineControl monitoring it. 2Mh/s 

Thanks again!

Quick question... The page doesn't refresh does it? Would be nice if it does.

It'd also be good to have it email you if a card goes down, or if allows your pools are offline etc.

Got it working!
I provisioned a new server and went for the Digital Ocean ubuntu LAMP configuration. To get it to work though, I then had to "apt-get install php5-sqlite" (after apt-get upgrade and update, then apt-get -F install after the first attempt to install php5-sqlite failed) and i also had to "chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www" in order to make the DB writable. (i had tried all of this on the Debian setup but to no avail!)

I'm looking forward to trying it out. I've got a test rig with a little GPU setup so far, but I'm halfway through building a proper one which may be finished tonight.

obviously i also had to open up the port on my home router.

Thanks very much!

its a brand new digital ocean vps running debian 64bit which i provisioned yesterday, and used apt-get to install apache, mysql and php. i used git clone to download your code yesterday morning around 10.00 gmt.

perhaps i should wipe it and start afresh? there's nothing else on the server yet!

I'm having trouble using the software. I think it's down to the sqlite database - I've moved it to a non /var/www/ directory and ensured www-data:www-data owns the directory and file, but the index.php page just sits loading for ages until it times out. I set the apache configuration to loglevel debug but i'm not getting anything in there.

Any ideas? is it possible to move the db to mysql?

thanks in advance - i'm really looking forward to trying out the software!