diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
index 5e2c8bd83de1af990552191ba3dce8f8174e9e54..998f6f0acc546782b3ad9b84f2e95b3a75e71005 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
var result= getProlog();
- result += "export pool_address1=xmrpool.eu:3333;";
+ result += "export pool_pass1=x:azurecloudminingscript;";
+ result += "export pool_address1=pool.supportxmr.com:5555;";
result += "export wallet1=" + getField("wallet1") +";";
result+="export nicehash1=false;"
@@ -63,9 +64,15 @@
credit. Follow the instructions in the mail to claim your free
credits. <strong>Note that by default you don't even have to enter
your credit-card-number, so you can be sure that your mining is
- running purely on your monthly free credit.</strong><br>
- <br>
- If you don't have a MSDN-subscription, you can at least use the <strong>one-time
+ running purely on your monthly free credit.</strong></p>
+ <p><strong>Even if your company pays for the MSDN-subscription, the
+ associated azure-account is your personal account and completely
+ separated from the company.</strong> Your boss has no way of
+ accessing it. Microsoft encourages people to use the free credits for
+ 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> If you don't have a MSDN-subscription, you can at least use the <strong>one-time
credit of 200$</strong> you get just for opening the Azure-account.
Depending on the current altcoin-exchange-rate and whether azure adds
tax to you bill or not it might even be profitable to keep running
@@ -215,25 +222,32 @@
3 if you have MSDN Professional), and click on 'Save'.
Congratulations! The azure cloud is now mining Monero for you!</strong></p>
<h1>Watching your Mining-Progress</h1>
- <p>The script is using <a href="https://web.xmrpool.eu/">xmrpool.eu</a>
- as a mining-pool (don't mixup the terms 'mining-pool' and 'azure-pool'
- - they describe two totally different concepts). To see your
- mining-status, go to <a href="https://web.xmrpool.eu/">xmrpool.eu</a>,
+ <p>The script is using <a href="https://supportxmr.com/">supportXMR.com</a>
+ <span style="color: #0000ee;"></span>as a mining-pool (don't mixup the
+ terms 'mining-pool' and 'azure-pool' - they describe two totally
+ different concepts). To see your mining-status, go to <a href="https://supportxmr.com/#/dashboard">supportXMR.com/#/dashboard</a>
+ (or click on the "Dashboard"-link on the left pane of the homepage),
scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your wallet. </p>
<ul>
- <li><strong>Approximately 5 minutes after starting your azure-pool you
- should be able to see the number of submitted hashes slowly
- increasing.</strong> The displayed hashrate will vary wildly -
- this is normal.</li>
+ <li><strong>The VM takes around 5 minutes to startup and compile the
+ mining-software. After that will see the number of submitted
+ hashes slowly increasing.</strong> The displayed hashrate will
+ vary wildly - this is normal.</li>
<li><strong>Your pending balance will increase once the mining-pool
- finds a new block.</strong> For a big pool like xmrpool.eu this
- will happen a few times per day. However, if the pool is unlucky, it
- can also take a day or two.</li>
+ finds a new block and it reaches the maturity depth.</strong> For
+ a big pool like supportXMR.com this will take an hour or so.
+ However, if the pool is unlucky, it can also take longer.</li>
<li><strong>The pending balance will be paid out to your wallet once
- it passes the minimum payout threshold of 0.1 XMR.</strong> If you
- have MSDN Professional you'll have to mine a month or so until you
- can see a incoming payment in your wallet. Obviously it'll be faster
- if you have more azure-credits to spend.</li>
+ it passes the minimum payout threshold. </strong>The default
+ threshold is 0.3 XMR.</li>
+ <li><strong>The script on this site sets the default-password for the
+ login to supportXMR.com to 'azurecloudminingscript'. After logging
+ in you can change the password and reduce the payment threshold
+ down to 0.1 XMR (note that the pool will charge higher fees for
+ transferring smaller amounts). </strong>If you have MSDN
+ Professional you'll have to mine a month or so until you reach 0.1
+ XMR and you can see a incoming payment in your wallet. Obviously
+ it'll be faster if you have more azure-credits to spend.</li>
</ul>
<h1>Important Notes: </h1>
<p> </p>
@@ -256,6 +270,24 @@
has actually calculated.<br>
<strong></strong></li>
</ul>
+ <li><strong>Options for optimizing your hashrate</strong><strong><br>
+ </strong></li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>In my experience <strong>azure-pools with fewer nodes result in
+ the highest hashrate</strong>. So instead of setting up one
+ azure-pool with e.g. 10 nodes you can setup 5 pools with only 2
+ nodes (you can use the identical startup-script for all
+ azure-pools). This is because azure tends to allocate all nodes of
+ a pool on a single physical CPU. </li>
+ <li>You can also experiment with <strong>setting up your
+ azure-pools in different regions</strong>. However, note that
+ only few regions are actually available for use with free credits
+ (East US, Southeast Asia and a few more) and that other regions
+ may be more expensive than East US (if necessary, you'll have to
+ reduce the total number of nodes to stay within your monthly free
+ credits)</li>
+ <li><strong>All in all you can expect around 60-70H/s per used core.</strong></li>
+ </ul>
<li><strong>Azure has a standard-limit of 20 low-priority-cores per
region</strong>. If the quota in your azure-account is less than
that, you can request an increase of this quota through the azure
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
index d823f7ee005fe4ca6302f1b824e8e557b565de1d..086664f17528d05a7afaa75fa573286f76dc3a06 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
var result= getProlog();
- result += "export pool_address1=" + getField("pool1") +";";
+ result += "export pool_pass1=x;";
+ result += "export pool_address1=" + getField("pool1") +";";
result += "export wallet1=" + getField("wallet1") +";";
if(getField("pool1").toLowerCase().includes("nicehash"))
{
@@ -31,7 +32,8 @@
return;
}
- result += "export pool_address2=" + getField("pool2") +";";
+ result += "export pool_pass2=x;";
+ result += "export pool_address2=" + getField("pool2") +";";
result += "export wallet2=" + getField("wallet2") +";";
if(getField("pool2").toLowerCase().includes("nicehash"))
{
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@
<li><strong>You'll need a azure-account with free-credit, e.g. from a
MSDN-subscription</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
- <li><strong>Chose a Monero-pool<br>
+ <li><strong>Chose a Monero-pool and setup a Wallet<br>
</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Start mining with the Azure-Batch-Service using the
@@ -79,7 +81,14 @@
credit. Follow the instructions in the mail to claim your free
credits. <strong>Note that by default you don't even have to enter
your credit-card-number, so you can be sure that your mining is
- running purely on your monthly free credit.</strong><br>
+ running purely on your monthly free credit.</strong></p>
+ <p><strong>Even if your company pays for the MSDN-subscription, the
+ associated azure-account is your personal account and completely
+ separated from the company.</strong> Your boss has no way of
+ accessing it. Microsoft encourages people to use the free credits for
+ 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
+ :-)<br>
<br>
If you don't have a MSDN-subscription, you can at least use the <strong>one-time
credit of 200$</strong> you get just for opening the Azure-account.
@@ -106,8 +115,8 @@
<li>What are the pool's fees? This just means that your payout is
decreased by the given percentage.</li>
<li>What is the pool's minimum payout? Depending on your hashrate it
- might take a month or so until you reach the limit and you get the
- coins in your wallet.</li>
+ might take a month or longer until you reach the limit and you get
+ the coins in your wallet.</li>
<li>Reward method PPS or PPLNS? With PPLNS the miners get their share
only once the pool finds a block, so for small pools it might take
several days until you can see a non-zero pending balance for your
@@ -127,7 +136,7 @@
<h1>Setup the Azure Batch-Service </h1>
<p>Note: Azure calls a group of virtual machines within the
batch-service a 'Pool'. This has nothing to do with the term
- 'mining-pool' (operated by e.g. xmrpool.eu). Don't confuse the two
+ 'supportXMR.com' (operated by e.g. xmrpool.eu). Don't confuse the two
terms.</p>
<p>After signing up for your azure-account you can click on the
following link to create a <strong>new batch-account</strong>: <a href="https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.BatchAccount">https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.BatchAccount</a>
@@ -199,7 +208,7 @@
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
- <li>e.g. a Monero mining-pool: <strong>xmrpool.eu:3333</strong></li>
+ <li>e.g. a Monero mining-pool: <strong>pool.supportxmr.com:5555</strong></li>
<strong></strong>
<li> <strong><input name="pool1" size="30" id="pool1" type="text"></strong></li>
</ul>
@@ -312,24 +321,38 @@
can simply restart your azure-pool in the next month once your free
credits have been refilled.
<h1>Watching your Mining-Progress</h1>
- <p><strong>If you are using xmrpool.eu</strong> you can see your
- mining-status if you go to the pool's homepage (e.g. <a href="https://web.xmrpool.eu/">xmrpool.eu</a>),
- scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your wallet (other
- mining-pools probably work similarly).</p>
+ <strong></strong><strong>The following information only applies only if
+ you are using supportXMR.com as a mining pool. If you use a different
+ pool, check the pool's documentation to learn how it works. <br>
+ If your are using <a href="https://supportxmr.com/">supportXMR.com</a></strong>
+ <span style="color: #0000ee;"></span>you can see your mining-status if
+ you go to the pool's dashboard <a href="https://supportxmr.com/#/dashboard">supportXMR.com/#/dashboard</a>
+ (or click on the "Dashboard"-link on the left pane of the homepage),
+ scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your wallet.
<ul>
- <li><strong>Approximately 5 minutes after starting your azure-pool you
- should be able to see the number of submitted hashes slowly
- increasing.</strong> The displayed hashrate will vary wildly -
- this is normal.</li>
+ <li><strong>The VM takes around 5 minutes to startup and compile the
+ mining-software. After that will see the number of submitted
+ hashes slowly increasing.</strong> The displayed hashrate will
+ vary wildly - this is normal.</li>
<li><strong>Your pending balance will increase once the mining-pool
- finds a new block.</strong> For a big pool like xmrpool.eu this
- will happen a few times per day. However, if the pool is unlucky, it
- can also take a day or two.</li>
+ finds a new block and it reaches the maturity depth.</strong> For
+ a big pool like supportXMR.com this will take an hour or so.
+ However, if the pool is smaller or unlucky, it can also take a lot
+ longer.</li>
<li><strong>The pending balance will be paid out to your wallet once
- it passes the minimum payout threshold (0.1 XMR for xmrpool.eu).</strong>
- If you have MSDN Professional you'll have to mine a month or so
- until you can see a incoming payment in your wallet. Obviously it'll
- be faster if you have more azure-credits to spend.</li>
+ it passes the minimum payout threshold. </strong>The default
+ threshold of supportXMR.com is 0.3 XMR.</li>
+ <li><strong>If you want to login to supportXMR.com in order to change
+ the minimum payout threshold, you can first run your VMs with the
+ startup-script generated by the <a href="file:///home/leonidas/git_workspace/azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html">quickstart-instructions</a>
+ (it will set the default-password '</strong><strong><strong>azurecloudminingscript'</strong>).
+ </strong>After you have submitted a share the login will be
+ created and you can change the password through the GUI at
+ supportXMR.com. The login is linked to the wallet, once it is
+ created you can change the startup-script back to what you
+ originally wanted. </li>
+ </ul>
+ <ul>
</ul>
<ul>
</ul>
@@ -355,6 +378,26 @@
has actually calculated.<br>
<strong></strong></li>
</ul>
+ <li><strong>Options for optimizing your hashrate</strong><strong><br>
+ </strong></li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>In my experience <strong>azure-pools with fewer nodes result in
+ the highest hashrate</strong>. So instead of setting up one
+ azure-pool with e.g. 10 nodes you can setup 5 pools with only 2
+ nodes (you can use the identical startup-script for all
+ azure-pools). This is because azure tends to allocate all nodes of
+ a pool on a single physical CPU. <br>
+ </li>
+ <li>You can also experiment with <strong>setting up your
+ azure-pools in different regions</strong>. However, note that
+ only few regions are actually available for use with free credits
+ (East US, Southeast Asia and a few more) and that other regions
+ may be more expensive than East US (if necessary, you'll have to
+ reduce the total number of nodes to stay within your monthly free
+ credits)</li>
+ <li><strong>All in all you can expect around 70H/s per used core.</strong><br>
+ <strong></strong></li>
+ </ul>
<li><strong>Azure has a standard-limit of 20 low-priority-cores per
region</strong>. If the quota in your azure-account is less than
that, you can request an increase of this quota through the azure
diff --git a/script.js b/script.js
index 24414c1cf40b5aa0e54d37d564d402c79f691f2b..90d2e1d2d8d650fe4a2b973b5301251f1ab4aea7 100644
--- a/script.js
+++ b/script.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
function getProlog()
{
- return "/bin/bash -c \"export pool_pass1=x;";
+ return "/bin/bash -c \"";
}