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About
The volunteergrid is a tahoe storage grid from users for users. Contrary to the TestGrid–which may be flushed at any time for development/testing reasons–the volunteergrid is meant as a stable alternative to the commercial allmydata.com grid. It was proposed by Eugene L. in February 2009 and an introducer was set up by Zooko after the idea received a fair amount of praise. There are usually between 15 and 20 active server nodes, but new nodes are always welcome.
Setting up a volunteergrid (storage) node
- Follow the install instructions
- If your storage server is behind a firewall/NAT, please set up port forwarding to your tub.port and point tub.location to your external IP address (see configuration).
- Set your introducer.furl to pb://6cypm5tfsv6ag43g3j5z74qx5nfxa2qq@207.7.145.200:64228,nooxie.zooko.com:64228/introducer
- Please subscribe to the volunteergrid-l mailing list - it is very low-traffic but might feature important announcements.
- Add your node to the map.
Best practices
- If you destroy data (by accident or decision), let us know! Please inform us on the mailing list or ping us on IRC.
- Please provide at least as much space as you use. (Don't forget to consider the redundancy factor: If you upload 1 GB of data, the grid will receive 3.33 GB of encoded data (3-of-10 encoding = 10/3 x file size = 3.33 x file size).)
Links
- Map of servers and people involved with the volunteergrid
- Introducer web interface provided by Zooko
- Public web interface (secorp.net) provided by Peter, the CEO of allmydata.com
- Public web interface (soultcer.net) provided by David T.
Servers
Introducer (nooxie.zooko.com)
nooxie is located in a co-lo in San Francisco. It is an athlon64 server running release "NCP1" of Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris (http://nexenta.org ). It has two identical SATA drives of about 33 GB capacity each in a ZFS RAID-Z mirror, at the time of this writing about 5 GB free. Its uptime is (on 2009-07-11), 72 days, which is when we upgraded it to Nexenta NCP1 final from an early beta release of Nexenta NCP1. uname -a says: SunOS nooxie 5.11 NexentaOS_20080312 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
Storage Nodes
| Name | Admin contact | Location | Notes/Status? |
| aogail-volunteergrid @ tigard.w007.org | allmydata (at) w007.org | Tigard, OR, USA | |
| yukyuk (Zooko's amd64 linux workstation) | IRC: zooko / zooko(at)zooko.com | Boulder, CO, USA | workstation -- DSL line (896 Kbps up according to Qwest, 686 Kbps up according to http://speedtest.allmydata.com) |
| ootles (Zooko's Macbook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo laptop) | IRC: zooko / zooko(at)zooko.com | Boulder, CO, USA | laptop (when it is at home, same DSL line as yukyuk) |
| draco (Zooko's Mac/PPC 867 MHz laptop) | IRC: zooko / zooko(at)zooko.com | Valhalla | dead until further notice |
| francois1(at)tahoe.ctrlaltdel.ch | francois(at)ctrlaltdel.ch | Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| trelbox | IRC: terrell/trel1023 | Chapel Hill, NC, USA | iMac on cable modem (359 kbps up via speedtest.allmydata.com) |
| ndurdner | IRC: ndurner | Stuttgart, BW, Germany | Workstation via cable modem (40 KB/s up) |
| SECORP_DOT_NET_<01-04> | IRC: secorp | ?? | read-only |
| stockrt-terra | ?? | ?? | |
| trid<0,1> | david(at)triendl.name/IRC: soultcer | Austria | |
| tahoe.soultcer.net | david(at)triendl.name/IRC: soultcer | France | Feel free to use as helper or web gateway |
| kpreid@slimy | kpreid@mac.com | USA | |
| kpreid@eider | kpreid@mac.com | USA | Typically behind NAT, expect connection failures for now |
mystery storage servers
The following appear in the introducer's list (on 2009-07-11) but have not been listed by their owners in storage servers above:
| Nickname | PeerID | Connected? | since | First Announced | Version |
| struc.tv | gapnio7pehmn7qiibaavkqfpkhp36be2 | Yes: to 97.107.135.139:58490 | 14:41:04 11-Jul-2009 | 14:41:03 11-Jul-2009 | 0 |
| warner@cookies | tkl7xc45zqqz7ss2pc62epksxd7emb3m | No | 14:59:40 11-Jul-2009 | 14:41:03 11-Jul-2009 | 0 |
| civodul | 4up6nzffykkpimufzil2e77heuasarvd | No | 14:59:40 11-Jul-2009 | 14:41:03 11-Jul-2009 | 0 |
