[volunteergrid2-l] Introduction

[Shawn Willden]

Just a general comment to everyone here:

I've been feeling somewhat disappointed that our grid hasn't grown faster,
but I was just looking at things today and I see that with Marco's server
we'll be up to 10, and with Brad's second server we'll have 11.  That's not
bad at all, actually -- especially when I compare it with the volunteergrid
1.

Right now, VG1 has 21 known storage servers -- 8 of which are currently
unavailable, meaning the list is covered with big red blotches and only 13
are working.  Worse, several of those are full.  I haven't tested in the
last few weeks, but the last time I tried, there were only eight nodes
actually accepting shares.  I have little doubt that if I tried using it for
any sort of serious backups that number would drop as another node or two
filled up.

Meanwhile, VG2 currently has nine storage servers -- and every time I look,
all nine are up and running, nothing but green in the list.  All nine are
accepting shares and if the available capacity on mine is any indicator (and
it should be), then all of them have hundreds of gigabytes available.  It's
less important, but I also notice that only three of the nine are not on the
latest release version of Tahoe-LAFS, and only one is older than the
previous release.

I'm convinced that we've done the right thing in opting for slow growth from
participants who are willing to commit to high uptime, high capacity and
proper maintenance.

Kudos!

I'd still like to get to 20 nodes (or 30 or 40), but I think the focus on
quality over quantity has been the right approach.  I think even at our
relatively small size, the VG2 grid is more reliable and more usable than
the VG1 grid.

-- 
Shawn
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