Status as of Sunday, August 21
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:50 pm
Good morning. Here's today's status:
- I haven't provided a status update in a while. At first, the delay was because Chris was in Canada, but then I wanted to devote as much time as possible to the incoming series of performance improvements. The reason for the focus on performance is because we plan to embark on a large advertising push, and to move towards supporting multiple algorithms. While Chris performs the testing, I'll be advertising, and then I will be working on support for other algorithms. The first algorithms will probably be Ethereum and SHA-256.
- The improvements are now implemented and were sent to Chris for testing. Previously, we were able to handle about 400 simultaneous with no problems; now, we expect to handle about 3000, with the capacity to easily expand to 4000 if we needed to spend $500. We were able to support half the litecoin network on the mining server in testing.
- While I've been doing that, Chris has been focusing on stability improvements. While the mining server is pretty stable because we that's where we spent a lot of our time, we haven't put much attention to the less important website. Chris made some fixes to the site and wrote a program that will send him text messages when parts of the system go offline so that he can fix them before customers notice them.