[volunteergrid2-l] joining the grid

[Brad Rupp]

Welcome Tyler.  Along with what has already been said, you don't need to 
have an OC3 link to your home.  Although that would be really cool. :)

Brad

On 2/3/2011 6:39 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com
> <mailto:tyler at tysdomain.com>> wrote:
>
>     I would like to contribute to the grid, though I have a question.
>     right now I pay $20 for a linode with 512 mb ram and 28 gb disk
>     space. Are there some affordable dedicated servers that I could grab
>     up for joining the grid?
>
>
> Welcome, Tyler!
>
> As to your question, I'm not aware of anything good but inexpensive,
> particularly since for volunteergrid2 we've established a policy that
> sets a minimum storage server node size at 500 GB.  I think any sort of
> dedicated server with that much storage available will be pretty pricey
> -- though I'd love to be wrong.
>
> What most of us are doing is simply hosting our nodes at home, on our
> home network connections and with old hardware that we have around.  I
> don't know if that approach will work for you.
>
> I suggest that a good place for you to start figuring out how you want
> to go about participating is to take a look at the volunteergrid2
> policies on the Wiki:
>
> http://bigpig.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VolunteerGrid2Policies
>
> Again, welcome!
>
> --
> Shawn
>
>
>
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