Finally created a private pool to learn a bit about it.

[Klee]

Used this version running in a Ubuntu 16.04 VM on my ProMox server with Apache 2 as the web server.

dvandal/cryptonote-nodejs-pool

Works like a charm and not too hard to figure out, even with a head cold making the ol brain a bit sluggish.

Of course this is for my own use on my lan ....really would not want to expose this to the internet at all since I have done zero tweaking or configuring.

Just wanted to get it working and mine to it for a couple of days for testing and for fun and i'll play around with the configs later.

I have been wanting to create a pool for a year or so but never tried until now, this is actually the second version of cryponote-node-js-pool that I tried.

The first version I tried had errors at just about every installation step so I gave up and searched for a easier and more current one to try.

 

[ari2asem]

impressive what you can

 

[Klee]

Every now and then I get a "no incoming connection error" with monerod.

Works fine for an hour or so then it pops up then I have to restart monerod.

Its odd, I did not have port forwarding configured on my router for this at all and it works fine for a while.

So I went ahead and opened up that port to see what happens.

 

[Klee]

Oh and with my hashrate finding a block every two months on average mining monero on my own pool wont even come close to paying for the electricity use so this is just a learning experience not an actual for profit deal.

 

[Klee]

Went ahead and rebooted, then restarrted Redis and it had a couple of errors displayed that I had to fix then rebooted again and now it runs correctly.

Letting the pool run all day with one miner connected to test some more.

 

[Klee]

Still get the monerod error, but the blockchain is fully synced at %100 so I'm going let it run.

 

[Klee]

On to phase 2:

Creating a new VM and will create a pool for a cryptonote based coin with a REALLY low hashrate.

Reason for that is I don't want to wait a couple of months it might take me to earn a monero block to tell me that the pool is working correctly.

So I will create a pool and mine to it with a coin that will allow me to have a mined block or two in a reasonable time to confirm that what I am doing works correctly.