{"id":782,"date":"2021-02-24T19:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/?p=782"},"modified":"2021-02-24T19:10:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:10:37","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-mine-cryptocurrency-on-ionos-cloud-vps-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/why-you-shouldnt-mine-cryptocurrency-on-ionos-cloud-vps-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you shouldn&#8217;t mine Cryptocurrency on IONOS Cloud\/VPS Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You should not bother with CPU mining cryptocurrency anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you are tempted by the ultra low prices of a VPS with IONOS here is why you should not even consider it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary reason you should not do this is that it is simply not profitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our example we are using a 2 core VPS server. When mining we see the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/61Tu0bb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"983\" height=\"356\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This rate is equal to $.006 per day for a total of $0.18 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see with 2 cores it is not worth it. Even if you ran this on a single core server costing $2 per month you would only make back $0.09 running at 100% the entire time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The secondary reason you should not be doing this is that it is against their T&amp;C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By mining on a Cloud or VPS you risk getting your account locked and terminated for abuse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion if you are considering mining you should be seeking a service which offers GPUs or ASICs instead as it has not been profitable to CPU mine for a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should not bother with CPU mining cryptocurrency anywhere. But if you are tempted by the ultra low prices of a VPS with IONOS here is why you should not even consider it: The primary reason you should not do this is that it is simply not profitable. In our example we are using a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}