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)

1. groups of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing

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

3. system administrators who want to experiment with it for backup

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

customer's computers

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

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	uniform	high	low

more to come...