[volunteergrid2-l] French nodes, why not ?

[Shawn Willden]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Marco Tedaldi <marco.tedaldi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello
>
> 2011/8/8 Caner Candan <caner at candan.fr>
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Discovering the Tahoe project, I would like to contribute to the
>> Volunteer Grid in adding some nodes in french servers.
>
>
Awesome!  We want all the geographic diversity we can get.


> I am
>> interesting to know the speed issue that the decentralization will
>> face with several nodes and data sharing being in far far locations
>> from each other.
>>
>> There are already nodes in europe, so french nodes would not be "alone".
>
> Tahoe is not really picky about delays in communication it seems. And
> except if you have a huge (way mire than 100MBit/s in both directions)
> bandwidth locally, your connection to the internet will be the limiting
> factor.
>

Yep, unless you have a slow connection, or crazy latencies, it shouldn't
make any difference.  And more geographic diversity means better reliability
in the face of localized disasters or other disruptions of service.

-- 
Shawn
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