# 100% hands-off turnkey AWS solo mining and fullnodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Mining\ **Created:** [October 28, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880 "2016-10-28T02:27:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/41 "2016-10-29T03:09:16Z")
the images I have up now already have “sprout” in them, only needed if sprout isn’t in the image name or description ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/42 "2016-10-29T03:10:11Z")
Thanks! if you end up mining any coins with them, donations are always appreciated and needed (I don’t have a day job)! ---
**Author:** ![Isida-HH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@Isida-HH](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Isida-HH)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/43 "2016-10-29T03:12:13Z")
I’ll do 🙂 I have already images … should I install wget h…h/zcash-1.0.0-sprout-amd64.deb? ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/44 "2016-10-29T03:12:32Z")
yes, if you are still on rc4 ---
**Author:** ![Isida-HH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@Isida-HH](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Isida-HH)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/45 "2016-10-29T03:13:30Z")
what ist rc4? I use Ubuntu Server ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/46 "2016-10-29T03:15:53Z")
I’m referring to your zcash installation…the AMI’s I dropped last night had rc4 on them and need to be updated, the ones I dropped today (the only ones currently visible for new instances) have sprout on them and are fine…if you built your own AMI, then you installed zcash and know what’s on it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Isida-HH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@Isida-HH](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Isida-HH)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/47 "2016-10-29T03:55:13Z")
Thank you! And you’ve got 5.5 sol/sc with c3.2xlarge? ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/48 "2016-10-29T03:56:11Z")
yes, but I found since then that c4’s are a bit cheaper and a tad faster ---
**Author:** ![Isida-HH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@Isida-HH](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Isida-HH)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/49 "2016-10-29T03:56:19Z")
~/zcash/./src/zcash-cli zcbenchmark solveequihash 10 { “runningtime” : 55.51606600 }, { “runningtime” : 55.40878500 }, { “runningtime” : 81.76414900 }, { “runningtime” : 72.88755500 }, { “runningtime” : 64.64459500 }, { “runningtime” : 113.52460900 }, { “runningtime” : 72.87704600 }, { “runningtime” : 55.34072000 }, { “runningtime” : 20.45808700 }, { “runningtime” : 38.30876300 } ---
**Author:** ![Isida-HH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@Isida-HH](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Isida-HH)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/50 "2016-10-29T03:57:48Z")
I 've got 63 is the median at c4.large ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/51 "2016-10-29T03:57:55Z")
I’m getting 4.35 sol/sec on a c4.xlarge right now ---
**Author:** ![Isida-HH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@Isida-HH](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Isida-HH)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/52 "2016-10-29T03:58:34Z")
How do you check it? ~/zcash/./src/zcash-cli zcbenchmark solveequihash 10? ---
**Author:** ![Isida-HH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@Isida-HH](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Isida-HH)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/53 "2016-10-29T03:59:24Z")
Sorry, I have to learn from the master 🙂 I’m just the begginer… ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/54 "2016-10-29T04:00:01Z")
I’m running it in the foreground with: `zcashd -getmininginfo -showmetrics=1 -gen=1 -daemon=0` of course I wouldn’t run that way all the time, but when benchmarking real-world performance, let it go like that for an hour and you’ll see what you’re really getting ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/55 "2016-10-29T04:00:32Z")
Thanks! I’m doing this all on a donation basis, I can’t stand to get another corporate job after 20 years working for startups ---
**Author:** ![Isida-HH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@Isida-HH](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Isida-HH)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/56 "2016-10-29T04:37:35Z")
I’ve got only 3 sols with my installation on c4.xlarge… I’ll try you image… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/57 "2016-10-29T04:39:42Z")
my image has sprout installed from a deb that I built on Ubuntu on a Xeon, and it performs somewhat better than deb’s built on i7’s on jessie (what the zcash team build on) for some reason, at least with tromp’s solver enabled ---
**Author:** ![iamniks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/iamniks/32/761_2.png) [@iamniks](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/iamniks)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/58 "2016-10-29T09:01:10Z")
I logged in to the same instance and now I am getting error: You must set rpcpassword= in the configuration file: Configuration file intself disappeared 🙂 and I can’t even see unspent wallets Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/59 "2016-10-29T09:03:23Z")
wow, did you shut down the instance? and if so did you stop zcashd before you did? I haven’t yet had any live ZEC in a wallet to fool with, and the testnet is messed up right now (they haven’t switched it to use the real genesis block) ---
**Author:** ![iamniks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/iamniks/32/761_2.png) [@iamniks](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/iamniks)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880/60 "2016-10-29T09:36:06Z")
No, I didn’t touch anything since yesterday 🙂 Maybe there was some memory leak and it rebooted itself. [Previous page](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/100-hands-off-turnkey-aws-solo-mining-and-fullnodes/3880.md?page=4)