[tahoe-dev] thinking of moving my klog from the Test Grid to the Volunteer Grid

Peter Secor secorp at allmydata.com
Thu Sep 17 08:29:02 UTC 2009


Maybe we can repurpose the test grid boxes to the volunteer grid. As a 
representative of Allmydata.com, I can volunteer them for the grid, but 
before I do so I'd want to make sure they could be maintained by 
volunteers as well. Ideas on how to effect that transition are welcome.

Ps

Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> In case you can't load my klog, here is the most recent entry:
> 
> The Tahoe-LAFS Test Grid — the grid that hosts the blog you are now
> reading — is having problems. It is composed mostly of servers owned
> by allmydata.com and offered as a free service to Tahoe-LAFS hackers
> to test out their experiments. Also various people connect their
> Tahoe-LAFS nodes to the Test Grid while doing experiments. There is a
> publicly writable directory linked from the front page of
> http://allmydata.org . There is also a page of measurements of the
> test grid: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/TestGrid .
> 
> The Test Grid really isn't the ideal grid to host a blog.
> Allmydata.com explicitly stated when they set it up that they might
> delete the data or take away the storage servers at any time. It was
> strictly for testing.
> 
> I've been persisting in hosting my blog on the Tahoe-LAFS Test Grid
> partly as an experiment — can a grid that is completely unmaintained
> (nobody from allmydata.com has looked at any of the donated servers in
> many months) and includes transient servers from anonymous people
> still be stable enough to use for my blog? The answer is "barely", and
> I'm probably going to end the experiment soon and move my blog to a
> reliable grid such as The Volunteer Grid, which is composed of servers
> owned and operated by contributors to the Tahoe-LAFS project. :-)
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