[UPDATED] Guide to mining on the cloud! ($0.0007 per hour, average 150 PPS)

[XPMiner]

You can also get away with compiling the source code in the smaller single CPU droplet if you create a swapfile

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

Thanks again! Updated OP. What's your XPM address? you deserve a tip! Btw, did you sign up as a result of my guide or did you already know about this?

[n01d3x]

Ok, so I have got my droplet set up and running. I can see the mininginfo, but how will I know when I find a block?

[UnknownK]

According to you I signed up for a digital ocean account. But while entering the card details I didn't notice any place where I can enter the promo code. They actually charged my original creditcard until I deactivated the account. please help me out here.

[XPMiner]

Ok, so I have got my droplet set up and running. I can see the mininginfo, but how will I know when I find a block?

You can setup a main wallet to run on your main computer. Import the private keys from your droplet. Instructions are in OP. However you have to have mined blocks before you know what addresses you normally mine into.

[XPMiner]

According to you I signed up for a digital ocean account. But while entering the card details I didn't notice any place where I can enter the promo code. They actually charged my original creditcard until I deactivated the account. please help me out here.

Just send in a support ticket, they will credit you $10.

[craslovell]

It looks like if you accept a smaller code in the promo box, it won't let you change it. You actually have to delete browser cache for the box to be available again, otherwise they hide it.

tricky tricky

[ivanlabrie]

Ok, so I have got my droplet set up and running. I can see the mininginfo, but how will I know when I find a block?

You can setup a main wallet to run on your main computer. Import the private keys from your droplet. Instructions are in OP. However you have to have mined blocks before you know what addresses you normally mine into.

Hmmm, do you need to do anything else to get the mined blocks in your main wallet? I imported yet I had a block I wasn't aware of in one of my vps instances.

[XPMiner]

Ok, so I have got my droplet set up and running. I can see the mininginfo, but how will I know when I find a block?

You can setup a main wallet to run on your main computer. Import the private keys from your droplet. Instructions are in OP. However you have to have mined blocks before you know what addresses you normally mine into.

Hmmm, do you need to do anything else to get the mined blocks in your main wallet? I imported yet I had a block I wasn't aware of in one of my vps instances.

Yes, you have to check your VPS once in a while because new blocks may be mined into addresses that you haven't seen before. Right now there are 6-7 different addresses I'm mining into using a single wallet.

[ivanlabrie]

Damn! I lost a lot of xpm then...