On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Saint Germain <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The VolunteerGrid2 requests you operate a node for longer time. As the > > other participants will store their data on your node, they would like > > to be sure that the churn in nodes is not too high. Otherwise, they > > would have to increase their K-of-N ratio to lower the chance of > > losing data when you turn off your node. And by increasing the ratio, > > they would increase the amount of data to be stored or transferred. > > That's why you'ld want a stable grid with low churn. > > > > No problem. If I make the jump, it will be a "professionnal" remote > server 24h/24 online with very good availability. That's exactly the type of server we most like to have in VG2. We have a fair number of home-based nodes as well (mine, for example, though it has very high uptime and is on a 50 Mbps up / 100 Mbps down link), but the ideal node for our purposes is a well-managed, co-located server with a very fast network connection. -- Shawn
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