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by tluyben2 1614 days ago
Wouldn't they be able to detect mining? And shut down that VM? I think many hosters would like to have that...
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It's not just miners, you also have people using your free or even cheap tiers for DDOS/PortScan/SSH Bruteforce. These ones burn your IP address so it's better to prevent it than to try to catch it later. A credit card check goes a long way as a barrier to entry.
As long as it is free miners will keep trying to get around it by for instance running tons of different free accounts each with a obfuscated mining system.

Even if you catch all just having them try will be a huge waste of resources.

Potentialy, but it’s much easier if they never have to look for VM’s mining at all.
Sure ... look for high CPU then anonymous miners cap their CPU usage. And a few legitimate users (and potential customers) get locked for reasons they don't understand.

Repeat with every other trick you use to detect abuse.

That just turns into a cat and mouse game.