[tahoe-dev] Potential use for personal backup

[Shawn Willden]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Saint Germain <saintger at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The VolunteerGrid2 requests you operate a node for longer time. As the
> > other participants will store their data on your node, they would like
> > to be sure that the churn in nodes is not too high. Otherwise, they
> > would have to increase their K-of-N ratio to lower the chance of
> > losing data when you turn off your node. And by increasing the ratio,
> > they would increase the amount of data to be stored or transferred.
> > That's why you'ld want a stable grid with low churn.
> >
>
> No problem. If I make the jump, it will be a "professionnal" remote
> server 24h/24 online with very good availability.


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.

-- 
Shawn
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