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Translation: "Yes, it's true, we expanded the ToS and banned crypto mining. We received many orders for servers with large disks. Large storage boxes (?) are a
by _Microft 5y ago
Translation:
"Yes, it's true, we expanded the ToS and banned crypto mining. We received many orders for servers with large disks. Large storage boxes (?) are also increasingly often rented. With storage boxes 1/2"
"this leads to bandwidth problems on the host systems. With Chia mining, there is the additional problem that the many read and write accesses put a lot of strain on the drives which will lead to failure. 2/2"
- Dylan16807 5y agoI'm curious what they mean by "bandwidth problems". At most, wouldn't you upload enough data to the servers to fill the drives once and then use a trickle afterwards? That seems like the best case for a storage box's bandwidth.
- Glench 5y agoThis is something people don't seem to understand about Chia. Mining ("farming") Chia is a very low-resource activity that can be done easily on Raspberry Pis — it's mostly just doing a few disk seeks every 30 seconds.
- mwpmaybe 5y agoIf they're just farming, sure, but plotting is extremely I/O intensive.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- peterkelly 5y agoIt's possibly a reference to internal I/O bandwidth on shared machines hosting VPSs, i.e. plotting is very I/O intensive so other virtual machines running on the same host will suffer.
- breakingcups 5y agoI've been suddenly unable to order any storage servers from Hetzner. I already suspected it was Chia even though they only cited "exceptional circumstances with hardware deliveries". Nice to see it confirmed.
- penagwin 5y agoI'm in the market for a storage server so hopefully this brings us some stock!