Pro-Tip: If you're mining STEEM on Azure, use the South Central US Region

in #mining8 years ago (edited)

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Virtual Machines deployed in the South Central US Region can be more than 10% cheaper to run (depending on configuration) than the same machine deployed in regions like e.g., East US and West US.

Proof

Here we see a DS15_V2 sized virtual machine running up a $1,237.27 monthly tab in the South Central US region:
Cost of DS15_V2 VM in South Central US region

The same machine in the East US region has a much better view, and higher rent, with a monthly tab running $1378.63.
East US Pricing

So what does that buy me in terms of hash rate?

Well, if you really want to pay that much monthly, you will be seeing a hash rate of about ~104,000 hps with 20 cores running on top of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image from the Azure Marketplace (for roughly $1.66 per hour).

Mining Results

If you want to get started for free ($200 worth of free azure utilization), see the following links:

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Here you go, you get $200 free compute time right off the bat:

Thanks for sharing bro :)

I wrote a guide to use the Free trial of Azure to setup steem mining
https://steemit.com/mining/@cloh76/guide-steem-mining-for-free-using-microsoft-azure

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