= 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 [http://allmydata.com/ allmydata.com grid]. It was [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-February/001248.html proposed by Eugene L.] in February 2009 and an introducer [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-February/001341.html 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 [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-December/003290.html new, more resilient, introducer] was implemented by [mailto:francois(at)ctrlaltdel.ch François Deppierraz] in December 2009.

There are usually between 10 and 15 active server nodes, but new nodes are always welcome.


= Setting up a volunteergrid (storage) node =
 * Follow the [http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html 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 [http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/configuration.txt 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''
 * Set your WUI port ({{{web.port}}}) to 9797 (so that conventional http{{{}}}://localhost:9797/<some-filecap> URLs work).
 * Please subscribe to the [http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volunteergrid-l volunteergrid-l] mailing list - it is very low-traffic but might feature important announcements.
 * Add your node to the [http://webcontent.osm.lab.rfc822.org/tahoe/ 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 =
 * [http://webcontent.osm.lab.rfc822.org/tahoe/ Map of servers and people involved with the volunteergrid]
 * [http://tahoe.ctrlaltdel.ch:8123/ Introducer web interface]
 * [http://volunteergrid.org Public web interface (volunteergrid.org)] provided by David T.

= Servers =
== Introducer == 

The introducer is currently run by [mailto:francois(at)ctrlaltdel.ch 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 || [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirl,_Austria Austria] ||
|| volunteergrid.org || david@{{{}}}triendl.name/IRC: soultcer || France || Feel free to use as [pb://ofeglk2iyvqstkyjekkaz6tbnuldlduo@helper.volunteergrid.org:8080/ho7qilzliebbb6py6lp553tmzzc3x2ju helper] or [http://tahoe.soultcer.net/ 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 || [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-July/002211.html 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 || [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirl,_Austria Austria] || All shares have been moved to other nodes as of 2009-12-17