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).)

Links

• ​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

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
ufpafssvs63o2degftbo4i65mov6lqma	soultcer-kat	david@triendl.name/IRC: soultcer	​Austria
5ouv6kibslfodqbmifie3kfru2v5jnd7	trelbox	IRC: terrell/trel1023	Chapel Hill, NC, USA	iMac on cable modem (359 kbps up via speedtest.allmydata.com)
2bu4lxwam2vhlbxqy73shuiubxyswqmu	volunteergrid.org	david@triendl.name/IRC: soultcer	Orlando, USA	Feel free to use as [pb://2bu4lxwam2vhlbxqy73shuiubxyswqmu@helper.volunteergrid.org:8080/rtzqkquodofdrjln2ijxmsotc4wy6eng helper] or ​web gateway
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 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	often unavailable
rhug4hslnh4zw7g46itgyjr6cbgrylhy	`Vapor' on 74.207.243.100	wilcoxjg(at)gmail.com	CA, USA	Online as of 2010-02-13
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
x2l47knnwwvfxonturznfh3n5hh7g7a2	FreeStorm-Alix2	IRC: FreeStorm	Lausanne, Switzerland	Online as of 2010-07-01 - ADSL 5000/500
3cragbava4skmnrx46sk2kegly7wrjp4	FreeStorm-Alix4	IRC: FreeStorm	Lausanne, Switzerland	Online as of 2011-01-10

Decommissioned/Lost Storage Nodes (by decommission date)

Nodeid	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
qdmr373dryfkbbtfk3yhek75c55hpvsv	trid1	david(at)triendl.name/IRC: soultcer	​Austria	All shares have been moved to other nodes as of 2009-12-17
nd74tvz6fayor6eancf3i665iacjwjgw	kpreid@slimy / @gobi	kpreid@…	USA	2009-12-19 — shares moved to kpreid@gobi m2sbabta5mc22ijtfkcidmpwbuxbp3bf
3qwqblhkr467xvzjotqcvztigd3knmfc	kpreid@gobi	kpreid@…	USA	2009-12-19 — created while reconfiguring a server, never actually used, current entry in introducer is leftover
wbxexhfu5qdjufmxwomsbuktf46pajkz	`Toes' on verterok.endoftheinternet.org	wilcoxjg(at)gmail.com	Santa Cruz, CA, USA	Online as of 2010-02-13