[volunteergrid2-l] Hi

Steve Dodson steve.dodson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 19:13:01 UTC 2012


For what it's worth, both of my nodes are with Qwest; one over ADSL, the 
other a bonded T1 with an SLA

On 04/04/2012 01:10 PM, erpo41 at gmail.com wrote:
> CableOne is my ISP.
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Jody Harris<jharris at harrisdev.com>  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
>> ----
>> Ph. 575-208-4567
>> - Think carefully.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:18 AM, erpo41 at gmail.com<erpo41 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After reading a comment on slashdot
>>> (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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