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 in 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

• ​Map of servers and people involved with the volunteergrid
• ​Introducer web interface
• ​Public web interface (volunteergrid.org) provided by David T.

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 list or contact them directly.

Storage Nodes

Name	Admin contact	Location	Notes/Status?
de.struc.tv	??	??
francois1(at)tahoe.ctrlaltdel.ch	francois(at)ctrlaltdel.ch	Lausanne, Switzerland
imp-ap01	IRC: ndurner	Germany
Kim	??	??
kpreid@eider	kpreid@switchb.org	USA	Typically behind NAT, outgoing connections only
ndurdner	IRC: ndurner	Germany	Workstation via cable modem (40 KB/s up)
SECORP_DOT_NET_<01-04>	IRC: secorp	??	Read-only
trelbox	IRC: terrell/trel1023	Chapel Hill, NC, USA	iMac on cable modem (359 kbps up via speedtest.allmydata.com)
trid0	david@triendl.name/IRC: soultcer	​Austria
volunteergrid.org	david@triendl.name/IRC: soultcer	France	Feel free to use as [pb://ofeglk2iyvqstkyjekkaz6tbnuldlduo@helper.volunteergrid.org:8080/ho7qilzliebbb6py6lp553tmzzc3x2ju helper] or ​web gateway
yukyuk (Zooko's Athlon64 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)

Decomissioned/Lost? Storage Nodes (by decomission date)

Name	Admin contact	Last Location	Notes/Status?
draco (Zooko's Mac/PPC 867 MHz laptop)	IRC: zooko / zooko(at)zooko.com	Valhalla	​Dead as of 2009-08-7]
aogail-volunteergrid @ tigard.w007.org	allmydata (at) w007.org	Tigard, OR, USA	Not seen since introducer change 2009-12-11
kpreid@slimy	kpreid@switchb.org	USA	As of 2009-12-17, shares still exist but server not up
ootles (Zooko's Macbook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo laptop)	IRC: zooko / zooko(at)zooko.com	Boulder, CO, USA	Not seen since introducer change 2009-12-11
`Toes' on verterok.endoftheinternet.org	wilcoxjg(at)gmail.com	CA, USA	Not seen since introducer change 2009-12-11
`Vapor' on 74.207.243.100	wilcoxjg(at)gmail.com	CA, USA	Not seen since introducer change 2009-12-11
trid1	david(at)triendl.name/IRC: soultcer	​Austria	All shares will be spread to other nodes, no data will lost (last update: 2009-12-17)