[volunteergrid2-l] Introduction

[Billy Earney]

welcome to the group Marco! :)

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> 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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