So it's been changed back to how it was. The server accepts shares for the current round, even if the block count changed by 1?
Any old work from previous rounds are ignored?

Maybe us GPU miners should make a hall of fame, too? My miners found a total of 1184 blocks and I guess ArtForz's found even more; not to mention all those CPU miners running a year ago.

Read this forum for few posts back. It will be back soon.

But the round took 7 seconds to complete and the pool should have made 52 shares at this time frame. Poor those who earned a stale share at that time. How many stale shares did you log during this round (and on average during all rounds)?

I'm not advocating counting stale shares but I was curious how many stale shares arrived within the same timeframe. It can show the delay inefficiencies. 


I would expect more. With 5s getwork refresh time, most of the workers should have worked on the non-stale block at least some of their time. Some of the workers should have worked most of this time. Only 3 shares is below 0.5s of the pool capacity. I would expect 10-20 shares.

That's random for you
I'm having some connection problems, quite regularly a connection is lost every 7-10 minutes, is it just me?

In case you need it, check midphase.com server plans.
Nice network, price and support.
I have servers with 2 yrs uptime with them.

Thanks gusti for the tip. I have few boxes on Linode and I love the service and their support, so I'd like to stay here. I also think we've fixed the network issue, so no need to migration right now. Keep in mind that those 160 requests/s (10.000.000.000 requests per month!) are pretty high traffic and everything must be perfect to run smoothly on VPS.

Almost same as on standalone mining, only with steady payouts. Check http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php and divide 50BTC (days from calculator) to get your expected daily reward from pool mining.