[volunteergrid2-l] Introduction

[Shawn Willden]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Marco Tedaldi <marco.tedaldi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everybody
>

Welcome!


> I've been playing around with Tahoe a little bit together with a friend.
> No I'de love to join a network of users to share some storage.
>
> I'm located in switzerland and have my server up 24/7.
> Sadly, Bandwith is somewhat limited with 5MBit/s down and 500kBit/s up.
>
> What do I have to do to join this group?
>

Excellent!  First, you should take a look at the wiki and make sure you're
comfortable that you can meet the capacity and uptime requirements.  I don't
think your bandwidth is an issue; it's a little slow, but one nice thing
about a distributed file system is that you only have to get a little bit
from each server when retrieving your data.  It sounds like you already try
to keep your machine up and running, so as long as you're willing to
dedicate between 500 and 1000 GB, you should be in good shape.

Oh, and I love that you're in Switzerland.  Spread the bits far and wide so
no localized problem can wipe them out... most of us are in the US.

Assuming you're comfortable with everything after you look through it, the
next step is to get your account authorized to see the private parts of the
wiki, which will give you our introducer FURL and you can set up your
storage node.

If you have any questions about how to do any of this, feel free to ask.

-- 
Shawn
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