minexmr2 VS haproxy

If you know what you are doing you can run a pool on top of p2pool and your friend can mine to their own address. (https://github.com/minexmr2/minexmr2)

I am now working on implementation of minexmr2.com last payouts to the miners to be shown to the public domain web-ui and could update the site's text on p2pool dust payout while deploying GitHub issue #7 to the pool's site.

I turn on N new cloud servers (VPS or bare-metal), on each one I then install the upstream part of the minexmr2 pool in conjunction with p2pool and monerod instances. The miners will be connected here.

minexmr2.com has standard 1% fee and convenient payment threshold 0.01XMR suitable for low hashrate miners (some 50KH/s). Fee is needed to pay dedicated servers running pool's software that is 100% open source, unlike many other pools.

Consolidating UTXO’s from p2pool is one key reason I've made pool minexmr2.com. Primarily I've made that pool for myself because I have some hashrate power to point to. Then I've released source code of the pool at GitHub, GitLab and opened the pool for all the miners. It accumulates p2pool payouts inside and sends 0.01XMR chunks to the end-user miners.

if you are a Linux system administrator, you can build, deploy and maintain your own minexmr2.com instance, my pool is 100% open source. There exists one man already that has done that on his own internal server. Look for source code at GitHub or GitLab.

Welcome to add other feature requests on the pool's GitHub or GitLab page.

I wanted to try it out just now but hit a roadblock immediately - it cannot automatically obtain and maintain TLS certificates. You have to use an external client (e.g. acme.sh), set up a cron to check/renew them, and poke HAProxy to reload them if necessary. I'm way past doing this in 2023.

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-and-let-s-encrypt

https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/1864

For context I think this might be useful: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/blob/master/addons/promex/README

I turn on 1 relatively cheap cloud server to process DNS, https and stratum connections and route them via haproxy to one of N miner servers described above.

Full technical writeup here: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/commit/a8598a2eb11b6c989e81f0dbf10be361782e8d32

With the recent discussions about memory safe languages, HAProxy is still surprisingly written in C [0].

[0]: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy

It does not, because HAProxy does not perform any disk access at runtime and thus would be unable to persist the certificates anywhere. Disks accesses can be unpredictably slow and would block the entire thread which is not something you want when handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second.

See this issue and especially the comment from Lukas Tribus: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/1864

Disclosure: Community contributor to HAProxy, I help maintain HAProxy's issue tracker.

Code link: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy