From 0fc06e16917a715e4b08318b23f3af1c5b25f4c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: azurecloudminingscript <azurecloudminingscript@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 12:18:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH]
---
Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html | 72 ++++++++++++-------
...zure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html | 12 ++--
..._Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html | 8 ++-
Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html | 8 +--
index.html | 6 +-
5 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html b/Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html
index 60ef861..858468b 100644
--- a/Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html
+++ b/Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
- <title>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency: Detailed
- Instructions</title>
+ <title>How to Run Folding@Home with your Free Credits from Azure</title>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/favicon.png">
<script type="application/x-javascript"></script>
@@ -48,13 +47,15 @@
to 150$ monthly credit</strong> for the azure-cloud. You can use
these credits to run folding@home in the azure-cloud (<strong>150$ is
enough to run 20 cores for one month</strong>, which will net you
- around 50.000 folding@home-points per day). </p>
+ around 150.000 folding@home-points per day). </p>
<p>Note: It is your responsibility to comply with Azure's ToS. You will
- be banned very quickly if you do something that Azure does not like. <strong>I
- recommend only using free credits from legitimate sources</strong>
- (e.g. if you have a MSDN-subscription from your day-job).</p>
+ be banned very quickly if you do something that Azure does not like. <strong>You
+ should only use free credits from legitimate sources</strong> (e.g.
+ if you have a MSDN-subscription from your day-job).</p>
<p>To start, enter your <strong>Folding@Home-Team-ID, User-ID and
- Passkey</strong> in the fields below:<br>
+ Passkey</strong> in the fields below (all entered data is processed
+ in your local browser with client-side javascript and is not sent
+ through the internet):<br>
</p>
<ul>
<ul>
@@ -74,8 +75,11 @@
<ul>
<li><input name="fahteam" size="30" id="fahteam" type="text"></li>
</ul>
- <li>Enter the passkey for your Folding@Home User-ID here. <strong>You
- can leave this field empty if you don't have a passkey</strong></li>
+ <li>Enter the passkey for your Folding@Home User-ID here. You can
+ create a passkey <a href="https://apps.foldingathome.org/getpasskey">here</a>.
+ <strong>You can leave this field empty if you don't have a passkey
+ (you will get a lot less points without a passkey, though!)<br>
+ </strong></li>
<ul>
<li> <input name="fahpass" size="30" id="fahpass" type="text"></li>
</ul>
@@ -97,14 +101,14 @@
<li><strong>Instance Details</strong></li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Storage account name: The name of your storage-account</strong>
- (it has be unique, so just add some letters if the name is already
- taken). <strong>Also copy&paste the name into the following
- field</strong>:</li>
+ (it has to be unique, so just add some letters if the name is
+ already taken). <strong>Also copy&paste the name into the
+ following field</strong>:</li>
<ul>
<li><strong>The name of your storage-account</strong>: <input
name="storageaccount" size="30" id="storageaccount" type="text"></li>
</ul>
- <li><strong>Location: Choose '(US) East US'</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Location: Choose '(US) South Central US'</strong></li>
<li><strong>Replication: Choose 'Locally-redundant storage (LRS)'</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Leave the other options at the default-settings</strong>.</li>
@@ -154,7 +158,7 @@
few letters to make it unique if required)<br>
</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
- <li><strong>Location: Choose 'East US'</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Location: Choose 'South Central US'</strong></li>
<strong></strong>
<li><strong>Leave the other options at the default-settings.</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
@@ -173,15 +177,20 @@
<strong> </strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pool ID: Just a name for your azure-pool</strong></li>
- <li><strong>VM Size: 'Standard F1 (1 Cores, 2GB)'</strong></li>
</ul>
- <strong> </strong>
+ <strong></strong>
<li><strong> Section 'Operating System':</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Publisher: Canonical</strong></li>
<li><strong>SKU: 18-04 LTS</strong></li>
</ul>
+ <li><b>Section 'Node Size'</b><br>
+ </li>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>VM Size: 'Standard F4s_v2 (4 Cores, 8GB Memory)' (Choose
+ the exact type!)</strong></li>
+ </ul>
<strong></strong>
<li><strong> Leave the other options at the
default-settings.</strong></li>
@@ -231,24 +240,23 @@
<td>Enterprise</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>Number of low priority nodes (F1, 1 Cores, 2GB)</td>
- <td><strong>6<br>
- </strong></td>
- <td><strong>12<br>
+ <td>Number of low priority nodes (F4s_v2, 4 Cores, 8GB)</td>
+ <td><strong>1<br>
</strong></td>
- <td><strong>20<br>
+ <td><b>3</b></td>
+ <td><strong>5<br>
</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cost of nodes for 31 days</td>
- <td>~45$</td>
+ <td>~26$</td>
<td>~90$</td>
- <td>~149$</td>
+ <td>~130$</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Monthly free credit</td>
<td>50$</td>
- <td>100$</td>
+ <td>78$</td>
<td>150$</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
@@ -259,7 +267,7 @@
<br>
Now go back to '<strong>Overview</strong>' and click on '<strong>Scale</strong>'.
Enter the desired number of nodes in the field '<strong>Low priority
- nodes</strong>' (e.g. 20 if you have MSDN Enterprise), and click on
+ nodes</strong>' (e.g. 5 if you have MSDN Enterprise), and click on
'Save'.<strong><br>
<br>
</strong>
@@ -280,15 +288,25 @@
<p>You can also have a look at <a href="https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/">https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/</a>
to see your place in the ranking: if you enter your username in the
search-box on the left side your data should show up once you have
- completed a few WUs.</p>
+ completed a few WUs Note that you will only get a fraction of the
+ points if you are not using a passkey. Even if you are using a passkey
+ you won't get credited with the full points until you have completed
+ 10 WUs. After 3 or 4 days you should see a sharp increase in the
+ achieved points per day.<br>
+ </p>
<br>
<h2>Important Notes</h2>
<ul>
+ <li>This websites uses only client-side javascript, all of the
+ information you are entering into this site are processed on your
+ local machine. None of the information is sent through the internet.
+ <b>Nevertheless, do not run this script on an Azure-account which is
+ critical to your business (or your employer's business).</b></li>
<li>On the overview-page of your pool your nodes will always show up
with the status 'idle'. This is normal (all the work is done through
the startup-script, so from Azure's point of view the nodes are idle
because there are no individual 'tasks').</li>
- <li>Once setup, the VMs will keep on running indefinetely. However, if
+ <li>Once setup, the VMs will keep on running indefinitely. However, if
you start too many nodes then your free credits will get exhausted
before the end of the month and azure will delete your pools. If
that happens just reduce the number of nodes by one and setup
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
index 60fa1a0..ffce108 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
other mining-guides.
<hr>
<h1>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Monero (XMR)</h1>
- <p>The rate can fluctuate between 1:1 and 1:4, i.e. in the best case
+ <p>The rate can fluctuate between 1:1 and 1:10, i.e. in the best case
you'll get almost 1$ worth of cryptocurrency for every 1$ spent on
azure (depending on the current exchange-rates). <strong>With an MSDN
Enterprise subscription you can mine cryptocurrency worth up to 149$
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@
and better than bitcoin in virtually every aspect</strong> (i guess
bitcoin beats Monero only in popularity). <br>
<br>
- <strong>You can see screencast of the required steps in the video below</strong>
- (switch to fullscreen-mode with the button in the bottom-right corner to
- see it properly):<br>
+ <strong>You can see a screencast of the required steps in the video
+ below</strong> (switch to fullscreen-mode with the button in the
+ bottom-right corner to see it properly):<br>
<br>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mlb3JyKL1G0?rel=0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media"
allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe>
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@
testing and learning, and this is what you'll do: learning about using
the azure-cloud and the blockchain-technology in a very practical way
:-)</p>
+ <p>Note: It is your responsibility to comply with Azure's ToS. You will
+ be banned very quickly if you do something that Azure does not like. <strong>You
+ should only use free credits from legitimate sources</strong> (e.g.
+ if you have a MSDN-subscription from your day-job).</p>
<h1>Get a Monero-Wallet </h1>
<p>There are many ways how to create a Monero-wallet. The easiest is to
setup a web-wallet with <a href="https://mymonero.com/">MyMonero.com</a>.
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
index a718735..2286f63 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
<hr>
<h1>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency: Detailed
Instructions</h1>
- <p>The rate can fluctuate between 1:1 and 1:4, i.e. in the best case
+ <p>The rate can fluctuate between 1:1 and 1:10, i.e. in the best case
you'll get almost 1$ worth of cryptocurrency for every 1$ spent on
azure (depending on the current exchange-rates). <strong>With an MSDN
Enterprise subscription you can mine cryptocurrency worth up to 149$
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@
testing and learning, and this is what you'll do: learning about using
the azure-cloud and the blockchain-technology in a very practical way
:-)</p>
+ <p>Note: It is your responsibility to comply with Azure's ToS. You will
+ be banned very quickly if you do something that Azure does not like. <strong>You
+ should only use free credits from legitimate sources</strong> (e.g.
+ if you have a MSDN-subscription from your day-job).</p>
<h1> Chose Mining-Pool</h1>
<p></p>
<p>The scripts provided on this site support mining with all algorithms
@@ -118,7 +122,7 @@
to calculate your expected profits). </p>
<strong>To start mining you'll need to choose a mining pool. There
should be a list of available mining-pools somewhere on the homepage
- of your desired coin (e.g here's a list of <a href="https://moneropools.com/">Monero-pool</a>).
+ of your desired coin (e.g here's a list of <a href="https://moneropools.com/">Monero-pools</a>).
</strong>Pay attention to the pool's rules:
<ul>
<li>What are the pool's fees? This just means that your payout is
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html
index cc30e96..77f70a7 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html
@@ -101,10 +101,8 @@
<li><strong>Location: Choose 'South Central US'</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Leave the other options at the default-settings.</strong></li>
- <li><strong>
- <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
- <strong>Click on 'Review+Create' at the bottom and then on
- 'Create" on the following page to create the batch-account</strong></strong></li>
+ <li><strong> <strong>Click on 'Review+Create' at the bottom and then
+ on 'Create" on the following page to create the batch-account</strong></strong></li>
</ul>
<p> Once you get the notification that your batch-account has been
created (it will take a few seconds), go to your batch-account (link
@@ -278,7 +276,7 @@
Azure might restart your nodes at any time and then the script has
to download and setup everything again. <br>
<strong></strong></li>
- <li>The script is using the miner from <a href="https://miner.beeppool.org/">beeppool.org</a>.
+ <li>The script is using the miner from <a href="https://github.com/Beeppool/miner">beeppool.org</a>.
<br><strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>Nothing in life is free.</strong> If you are mining with
the script from this site the miner-executable will mine 1% of the
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 1018653..57c9404 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -87,7 +87,11 @@
<br>
</a></li>
<li><a href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html">There's
- also a separate guide for mining NIMIQ.</a></li>
+ also a separate guide for mining NIMIQ.<br>
+ <br>
+ </a></li>
+ <li><a href="Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html">To run
+ folding@home with the azure-cloud, see this guide.</a></li>
</ul>
<br>
<hr>
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