There are several ways that people might want to use Tahoe:

(This Wiki page was originally inspired by ​this discussion on the tahoe-dev list)

• friendnet: a group of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing
• sysadmin: a sysadmin wants to backup data onto a few of his own server
• hivecache: a sysadmin wants to backup data onto hundreds of employee workstations

Use Cases

name	number of nodes	administrative domains	node capacity	node availability	churn
friendnet	2-10	many trusted domains	mixed	it depends on the friends...	low
sysadmin	2-10	one domain	uniform	high	low
hivecache	10-1000	one domain, but not as well controlled	somewhat uniform	high	low

more to come...

Others not yet entered into the table:

• Allmydata, Inc. operating a storage grid on corporately owned servers

• Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the

customer's computers

• a large, diverse ecosystem of selfish or mutually suspicious people and organizations who want a storage service with extremely high reliability and availability