diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
index c6b8e0fadfae279304c2aba0f069f12e3b1f47d1..d8351d9381bc3705b0d7bc8373cd76d111ba1045 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
<ul>
</ul>
<h1>Setup Azure with Free Credit</h1>
- <p>Do you have a <strong>MSDN-subscription from you day job?</strong>
+ <p>Do you have a <strong>MSDN-subscription from your day job?</strong>
Great! You must have already noticed that Microsoft keeps sending you
emails asking you to open an azure-account with up to 150$ monthly
credit. Follow the instructions in the mail to claim your free
@@ -121,9 +121,11 @@
batch-account</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 and <strong>create
- a new pool</strong>: select <strong>'Pools'</strong> and then click
- <strong>'Add'</strong>. Fill the form with the following information:<br>
+ created (it will take a few seconds), go to your batch-account (link
+ to your batch-accounts: <a href="https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/Resources/resourceType/Microsoft.Batch%2FbatchAccounts">https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/Resources/resourceType/Microsoft.Batch%2FbatchAccounts</a>)
+ and <strong>create a new pool</strong>: select <strong>'Pools'</strong>
+ and then click <strong>'Add'</strong>. Fill the form with the
+ following information:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li> <strong>Section 'Pool Detail':</strong></li>
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
index 6cde732782287e8d74a3a132e4a080e9915dc9e0..c27e31141d2e1454306d31d66efc0d1335c77ac6 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
scripts provided here</strong></li>
</ul>
<h1>Setup Azure with Free Credit</h1>
- <p>Do you have a <strong>MSDN-subscription from you day job?</strong>
+ <p>Do you have a <strong>MSDN-subscription from your day job?</strong>
Great! You must have already noticed that Microsoft keeps sending you
emails asking you to open an azure-account with up to 150$ monthly
credit. Follow the instructions in the mail to claim your free
@@ -169,9 +169,11 @@
batch-account</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 and <strong>create
- a new pool</strong>: select <strong>'Pools'</strong> and then click
- <strong>'Add'</strong>. Fill the form with the following information:<br>
+ created (it will take a few seconds), go to your batch-account (link
+ to your batch-accounts: <a href="https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/Resources/resourceType/Microsoft.Batch%2FbatchAccounts">https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/Resources/resourceType/Microsoft.Batch%2FbatchAccounts</a>)
+ and <strong>create a new pool</strong>: select <strong>'Pools'</strong>
+ and then click <strong>'Add'</strong>. Fill the form with the
+ following information:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li> <strong>Section 'Pool Detail':</strong></li>
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html
index dd4630893eb24a20878be6a38615656f4f5815d7..d20e6066307ef3a9916b855c45c5ee2c1509b8ad 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_NIMIQ.html
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
<p>The rate can fluctuate between 1:1 and 1:4, 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$
+ Enterprise subscription you can mine cryptocurrency worth up to 147$
every month!</strong> This is possible because the newly introduced
Azure-batch-service is dirt cheap!</p>
Short summary:<br>
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
the guide because there's a video of the setup-procedure available
there. <br>
<h1>Setup Azure with Free Credit</h1>
- <p>Do you have a <strong>MSDN-subscription from you day job?</strong>
+ <p>Do you have a <strong>MSDN-subscription from your day job?</strong>
Great! You must have already noticed that Microsoft keeps sending you
emails asking you to open an azure-account with up to 150$ monthly
credit. Follow the instructions in the mail to claim your free
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Resource Group: Click 'Create New' and give it a name,
e.g. 'myRecGroup'</strong></li>
- <li><strong>Location: Choose 'Central 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>
@@ -102,9 +102,11 @@
batch-account</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 and <strong>create
- a new pool</strong>: select <strong>'Pools'</strong> and then click
- <strong>'Add'</strong>. Fill the form with the following information:<br>
+ created (it will take a few seconds), go to your batch-account (link
+ to your batch-accounts: <a href="https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/Resources/resourceType/Microsoft.Batch%2FbatchAccounts">https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/Resources/resourceType/Microsoft.Batch%2FbatchAccounts</a>)
+ and <strong>create a new pool</strong>: select <strong>'Pools'</strong>
+ and then click <strong>'Add'</strong>. Fill the form with the
+ following information:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li> <strong>Section 'Pool Detail':</strong></li>
@@ -123,8 +125,8 @@
<li><strong> Section 'Node Size':</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<ul>
- <li><strong> Node pricing tier: 'Standard F2s_V2 (2 Cores,
- 4GB)'<br>
+ <li><strong> Node pricing tier: 'Standard F4s_v2 (4 Cores,
+ 8GB)'<br>
</strong>(Choose the exact type! Otherwise you will not get the
optimal hashrate!)<strong><br>
</strong></li>
@@ -190,18 +192,18 @@
<td>Enterprise</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>Number of low priority nodes (F2s_v2, 2 Cores, 4GB)</td>
- <td><strong>3<br>
+ <td>Number of low priority nodes (F4s_v2, 4 Cores, 8GB)</td>
+ <td><strong>1<br>
</strong></td>
- <td><strong>7</strong></td>
- <td><strong>10<br>
+ <td><b>3</b></td>
+ <td><strong>5<br>
</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cost of nodes for 31 days</td>
- <td>~38$</td>
- <td>~89$</td>
- <td>~126$</td>
+ <td>~30$</td>
+ <td>~88$</td>
+ <td>~147$</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Monthly free credit</td>
@@ -216,15 +218,15 @@
might look slightly different. If you run out of free credit before
the end of the month, just reduce the number of nodes by one and try
again.</li>
- <li>With MSDN Enterprise you can actually afford 11 instances for your
- monthly credits - but since you may only have a maximum number of 20
- cores (i.e. 10 F2-instances) per region you'll have to create a
- second pool in a different region (e.g. North Central US) for the
- 11th instance.</li>
+ <li><b>With MSDN Professional you can actually afford another 2 cores.
+ Just create another pool with a single F2s_V2-instance to get a
+ total of 6 cores from both pools </b>(creating a single pool with
+ 3 instances won't work: this costs more than 50$ due to the way the
+ storage is billed by azure)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Now go back to 'Overview' and click on 'Scale'. Enter the
number from the table above in the field 'Low priority nodes' (e.g.
- 3 if you have MSDN Professional), and click on 'Save'.
+ 1 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>Unless you have entered a different address in the field the script
@@ -261,7 +263,8 @@
has actually calculated.<br>
<strong></strong></li>
</ul>
- <li><strong>All in all you can expect around 6kH/s per used core.</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>All in all you can expect around 6kH/s per used core, i.e.
+ 120kH/s for 20 cores if you have MSDN Enterprise.</strong></li>
<ul>
</ul>
<li><strong>Azure has a standard-limit of 20 low-priority-cores per
@@ -273,15 +276,15 @@
recommend setting up more azure-pools in other regions</strong>
(the quota limits only the number of cores per region, nothings
stops you from setting up more azure-pools in other regions). Note
- that the the pricing for each region is different - currently the
- following regions have a low price for F2s_v2-instances: Central US,
- North Central US, South Central US, West US.</li>
+ that the the pricing for each region is different - for optimum
+ profitability you need to choose a region with a low price for
+ low-priority-batch-processing with F4s_v2-nodes and P4-type storage.</li>
<li><b>The script will restart itself every few days and download the
- the latest version of the miner-executable.</b> This way
+ the latest version of the miner-executable.</b> This way you will
automatically get updates for the miner as soon as they become
available. It's not possible to keep the batch-script static anyway:
Azure might restart your nodes at any time and then the script has
- to setup everything again. <br>
+ to download and setup everything again. <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