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Hosting vs Self-Hosting Miners

Compare profitability, risk, cooling load, and day-to-day ops between managed ASIC colocation and running miners yourself at home or in a shed.

Execution Steps

  1. Calculate all-in cost for self-hosting (electricity, cooling, downtime, maintenance, demand-response opportunity).
  2. Compare against fixed hosting offers with SLA and support terms.
  3. Stress-test both options with 10-20% difficulty increase scenarios and curtailment event assumptions.
  4. Select the path that gives predictable uptime and manageable operations.

Pre-Launch Checklist

  • All-in self-hosting costs mapped
  • Hosting SLA and contract reviewed
  • Downtime risk estimated
  • Decision documented with fallback plan

Next Step

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