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<li>a good dedicated server will be enough to run a pool like eligius</li>
<li>you will need to ln -s /dev/null debug.log ( or logrotate the file ) if you dont want to run out of space</li>
<li>you could use a good anti-ddos protection if your pool becomes popular ( most pools and bitcoin businesses are regularly ddosed .</li>
<li>concerning server load and bandwidth usage, you could be interested in reading this ( very technical ) <a href="http://xena.ww7.be/pools.txt" rel="nofollow">log extract</a> , setting this parameter ( difficulty rewrite ) can help to reduce load ( receiving more or less miners requests / second ) and / or make your pool more or less cpuminer friendly</li>
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<p>Has anyone measured what are the hardware and bandwidth requirements to run a mining pool? Are there any statistics on that per amount of active miners, their hashspeed and other variables?</p>

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# Mining pool hardware and bandwidth requirements

(Asked by: username_0 on 2011-10-27)

Has anyone measured what are the hardware and bandwidth requirements to run a mining pool? Are there any statistics on that per amount of active miners, their hashspeed and other variables?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2011-10-27. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

* a good dedicated server will be enough to run a pool like eligius
* you will need to ln -s /dev/null debug.log ( or logrotate the file ) if you dont want to run out of space
* you could use a good anti-ddos protection if your pool becomes popular ( most pools and bitcoin businesses are regularly ddosed .
* concerning server load and bandwidth usage, you could be interested in reading this ( very technical ) [log extract](http://xena.ww7.be/pools.txt) , setting this parameter ( difficulty rewrite ) can help to reduce load ( receiving more or less miners requests / second ) and / or make your pool more or less cpuminer friendly


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