On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Saint Germain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saintger@gmail.com" target="_blank">saintger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> The VolunteerGrid2 requests you operate a node for longer time. As the<br>
> other participants will store their data on your node, they would like<br>
> to be sure that the churn in nodes is not too high. Otherwise, they<br>
> would have to increase their K-of-N ratio to lower the chance of<br>
> losing data when you turn off your node. And by increasing the ratio,<br>
> they would increase the amount of data to be stored or transferred.<br>
> That's why you'ld want a stable grid with low churn.<br>
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</div>No problem. If I make the jump, it will be a "professionnal" remote<br>
server 24h/24 online with very good availability.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's exactly the type of server we most like to have in VG2. We have a fair number of home-based nodes as well (mine, for example, though it has very high uptime and is on a 50 Mbps up / 100 Mbps down link), but the ideal node for our purposes is a well-managed, co-located server with a very fast network connection.</div>
<div> </div></div>-- <br>Shawn<br>