[volunteergrid2-l] Hi

Wed Apr 4 15:19:33 UTC 2012

Logs.... that's a good question!

Apparently, our statistics are open to the world, so here's the Wiki stats
page:
http://bigpig.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebStatistics

....

not much.

jody
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- Think carefully.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Steve Dodson <steve.dodson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roswell, NM; conspiratorial nexus of the digital universe.  Who knew? Jody
> makes a good point, but at this juncture, I'm inclined to value additional
> nodes higher than the complete mitigation of a "black swan" event (such as
> rain). The Roswell nodes would compose about 15% of the grid's population -
> which is probably a higher than preferred concentration.  However, I would
> be shocked if future node-growth in other parts of the world did not far
> exceed this area going forward. Put another way, I fully expect the
> concentration percentage of Roswell-area nodes to drop as VG2 expands.
>
> I second Shawn's membership motion (as such) to admit Benjamin and Aaron
> conditionally, Eugen and Eric without reservation.  Is a formal poll
> necessary or should we simply allow a few more days of "debate" before the
> motion carries?
>
> post scriptum, As an aside, what sort of bounce did the bigpig logs reveal
> from the "Slashdot Effect"?
>
>
> On 04/04/2012 08:36 AM, Jody Harris wrote:
>
>> Eric presents us with a "potential problem."
>>
>> We already have two nodes in Roswell and one in Hagerman (20 miles south
>> of Roswell). Based on our redundancy stipulations, Eric's node could
>> fall to the same outages as Steve's two, and even overlap with mine.
>>
>>  - It is possible for Steve and Eric's nodes to be on the same ISP,
>> meaning as ISP outage would take out three nodes at once.
>>    - Eric, what ISP are you using?
>>  - It is conceivable that a power outage in Roswell could take out all
>> three Roswell nodes -- though, I have seen that Roswell's power is very
>> dependable.
>>    - Power outages in Roswell are rare and typically very brief.
>>  - It is likely that a natural disaster (though in itself is unlikely)
>> would take out all four Pecos Valley nodes.
>>    - The most likely scenario would be flooding -- if it ever rains
>> here again. *In the event of a flood*, all four nodes could be destroyed.
>>
>> I recommend bringing Eric into the grid, but these are the kinds of
>> things we need to be thinking about.
>>
>> jody
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>> Ph. 575-208-4567
>> - Think carefully.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:18 AM, erpo41 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:erpo41 at gmail.com> <erpo41 at gmail.com <mailto:erpo41 at gmail.com>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi all,
>>
>>    After reading a comment on slashdot
>>    (http://ask.slashdot.org/**comments.pl?sid=2758785&cid=**39534551<http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2758785&cid=39534551>
>>    <http://ask.slashdot.org/**comments.pl?sid=2758785&cid=**39534551<http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2758785&cid=39534551>>)
>> I
>>
>>    became intrigued with volunteergrid2. Let me tell you a bit about my
>>    situation and perhaps someone on this list can tell me if I'm a good
>>    fit for the organization.
>>
>>    I live in Roswell, NM in the United States. My home server sits on my
>>    10Mbps/1Mbps home Internet connection running 24/7. It has a 4x2TB
>>    RAID6 array, about 800GB of which I would be willing donate to the
>>    grid. I plan on expanding it to a 5x2TB RAID6 array when hard drive
>>    prices get closer to $0.05/GB again, and at that point I would be
>>    willing to bump that up to 1TB. It has 1GB of RAM and an Intel Celeron
>>    420 CPU. I would like to store about 100GB of my own data on the grid.
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>    Eric Anopolsky
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