P2Pools

[uncle_muddy]

I’ve been looking around and can’t seam to find any info on this, so over to you guys for an answer to the following question

What are the advantages of setting up and using your own P2Pool server?

UM

[NetCrow]

You can check my own post [url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,6702.0.html]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,6702.0.html[/url] to clear some doubts, and in here [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232.0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232.0[/url] I think it’s clear the general advantages and drawbacks:
[quote]Reasons to use P2Pool as your mining pool

You are in charge.
No single point of failure in the pool
It’s fun for geeks to learn
There are small statistical advantages increasing income vs traditional pools

Reasons to avoid P2Pool

You have to maintain your node (expect some sysadmin work)
Some hardware simply can’t perform well on P2Pool (less likely since July 2013)
You have to provide the CPU/RAM/Disk/Net capacity P2Pool needs
Currently P2Pool is between 1 and 1.4 TH/s, this relatively low hashrate means high variance, especially for low hashrate miners[/quote]