wiki:VolunteerGrid

Version 40 (modified by francois, at 2009-12-11T19:38:27Z) (diff)

New introducer

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. This introducer unfortunately died when nooxie's upgrade went wrong. A new, more resilient, introducer was implemented by François Deppierraz on December 2009.

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://yni7uuz6oc3lxvjdcivm7mzz6v64yibx@volunteergrid.allmydata.org:52627,tahoe.ctrlaltdel.ch:52627,volunteergrid.lothar.com:52627,introducer.volunteergrid.org:52627/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

Servers

Introducer

The introducer is currently run by François Deppierraz on tahoe.ctrlaltdel.ch, an OpenVZ VE running under Debian lenny.

In the unfortunate case where the current introducer disappear, the following people should be able to bring it back into life: Zooko, Brian Warner and David T. Ask on the mailing or contact them directly.

Storage Nodes

Name Admin contact Location Notes/Status?
aogail-volunteergrid @ tigard.w007.org allmydata (at) w007.org Tigard, OR, USA
`Vapor' on 74.207.243.100 wilcoxjg(at)gmail.com CA, USA In Co-Lo, on VM
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
imp-ap01 IRC: ndurner Germany
trelbox IRC: terrell/trel1023 Chapel Hill, NC, USA iMac on cable modem (359 kbps up via speedtest.allmydata.com)
ndurdner IRC: ndurner 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
`Toes' on verterok.endoftheinternet.org wilcoxjg(at)gmail.com CA, USA Using Dynamic DNS From Behind FW over Cable
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