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 servers. Volunteergrid is not accepting new members at this time.

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).)

Servers

Introducer

The introducer's address and FURL is secret.

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

Storage Nodes

Nodeid	Name	Admin contact	Location	Notes/Status
t6d76eso2w5za62uka5u2u23lug4bv42	de.struc.tv	??	??
xlnzwmko5inqjs4krxk35yj2sqjtb6ma	francois1(at)tahoe.ctrlaltdel.ch	francois(at)ctrlaltdel.ch	Lausanne, Switzerland
asrcmetfrh3k5ecusxasosibe7djzaza	imp-ap01	IRC: ndurner	Germany
w6o6wjm4a4bfxqiolyyy7kkfu5hzrfgy	Kim	??	??
xpu6hdv46lnkzfxox5tfn36mo3oo25eh	kpreid@eider	kpreid@switchb.org	USA	Typically behind NAT, outgoing connections only
m2sbabta5mc22ijtfkcidmpwbuxbp3bf	kpreid@gobi	kpreid@switchb.org	USA	Formerly kpreid@slimy. Outgoing only at the moment (2009-19-20), will reconfigure with port forward soon.
y652ecs6ebjrx7xhzjoxjuv7x55te4gi	ndurner	IRC: ndurner	Germany	Workstation via cable modem (40 KB/s up)
	SECORP_DOT_NET_<01-04>	IRC: secorp	??	Read-only
5ouv6kibslfodqbmifie3kfru2v5jnd7	trelbox	IRC: terrell/trel1023	Chapel Hill, NC, USA	iMac on cable modem (359 kbps up via speedtest.allmydata.com)
sfairkwuo75srejbm4vm72n5rradagxh	`Morpheus' on 204.14.159.190	jacob(at)appelbaum.net	San Francisco, CA, USA	Online as of 2010-03-03
o37y4uxp56n6qf6wlpy3mcctzurktaa3	bolo.goop.org	jeremy(at)goop.org	San Francisco, CA, USA	Online as of 2010-03-03
3jdnu6gf3522xjre6rbtpzelccjbnqbd	noisebridge_pony	leif(at)synthesize.us	San Francisco, CA, USA	Online as of 2010-03-07
twqin6udhypn2jibxurup4v6w3am4t2l	Zooko's ec2 micro instance named "a2"	IRC: zooko / zooko(at)zooko.com	Amazon EC2 us-east zone	Online as of 2011-01-26

Retiring -- currently in read-only mode and eventually to be decommissioned

	rhug4hslnh4zw7g46itgyjr6cbgrylhy	`Vapor' on 74.207.243.100	wilcoxjg(at)gmail.com	CA, USA	Final day is 2011-08-31
	draco (Zooko's Mac/PPC 867 MHz laptop)	IRC: zooko / zooko(at)zooko.com	Boulder, CO, USA	only occasionally connected
	ootles (Zooko's Macbook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo laptop)	IRC: zooko / zooko(at)zooko.com	Boulder, CO, USA	often unavailable

Decommissioned/Lost Storage Nodes (by decommission date)

Nodeid	Name	Admin contact	Last Location	Notes/Status
xjy2clbqg3pdtk72tbwfi6v45wsa6nd5	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)
wbxexhfu5qdjufmxwomsbuktf46pajkz	`Toes' on verterok.endoftheinternet.org	wilcoxjg(at)gmail.com	Santa Cruz, CA, USA	Online as of 2010-02-13
3qwqblhkr467xvzjotqcvztigd3knmfc	kpreid@gobi	kpreid@…	USA	2009-12-19 — created while reconfiguring a server, never actually used, current entry in introducer is leftover
nd74tvz6fayor6eancf3i665iacjwjgw	kpreid@slimy / @gobi	kpreid@…	USA	2009-12-19 — shares moved to kpreid@gobi m2sbabta5mc22ijtfkcidmpwbuxbp3bf
	aogail-volunteergrid @ tigard.w007.org	allmydata (at) w007.org	Tigard, OR, USA	Not seen since introducer change 2009-12-11
ufpafssvs63o2degftbo4i65mov6lqma	soultcer-kat	david@triendl.name/IRC: soultcer	​Austria	HDD crash, will not be replaced
x2l47knnwwvfxonturznfh3n5hh7g7a2	FreeStorm-Alix2	IRC: FreeStorm	Lausanne, Switzerland	As of 2012-09-09
3cragbava4skmnrx46sk2kegly7wrjp4	FreeStorm-Alix4	IRC: FreeStorm	Lausanne, Switzerland	As of 2012-09-09

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