My apologies for the numerous server restarts in the past week. Downtime doesn't last more than a minute, but every time the server restarts, the payout cycle gets reset. If you notice a missed payout, you can check the pool
about page for the last server restart time and when the next payout is scheduled. Note that no rewards are lost in these events and are carried over to the next payout.
The restarts were because I was deploying fixes for some rather urgent issues that I had identified, most of which won't even be noticed by miners:
- Gradually increasing CPU usage that would have brought the server to its knees within a week
- Pool was paying for invalid blocks
- Some additional performance optimizations that appears to also have a side effect of fixing the occasional "Unknown" block finder
Everything's working smoothly now, so there should be less frequent restarts. The pool wallet will need to be restarted occasionally (maybe once a month) because of increasing RAM usage.
This summer, we'll be upgrading some equipment in our data center, which will result in longer downtime, so I'll post here when I know the schedule.