[Mesh] Storage server and support forum

[Pete Forsyth]

Awesome work and report, Marc! I'm amazed that you have it up and running
something potentially useful so fast.

Pete


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:

> Hi meshers!
>
> As you may already know, we received a donation of a 10 TB storage server
> from the Novato Unified School District (!)
>
> We'll soon write a proper thank you post and put them on our list of
> sponsors.
>
> For now, I wanted to announce that it was picked up in Novato with the
> help of Pete, and over the past two days Daniel (who was the main force
> behind making this donation happen) and myself have set up the storage
> server. It's at sudo room for now and it's running GNU Mediagoblin. Until
> we find a better spot for it, you can reach it at:
>
>   http://datasink.sudomesh.org:8000/
>
> So far I've heard two suggestions for uses of this server:
>
>   * A community-curated library of free and open media.
>   * Encrypted storage for folks using the mesh.
>
> Let's see how we like mediagoblin for the first use. Right now I've
> installed plugins for: Video, audio, pdf, stl (3d models) and ascii art :)
>
> Some specs:
>
>   * 2 dual-core 2 GHz Xeon processors
>   * 4 GB ram (and four more slots to fill)
>   * 2x 160 GB sata drives in raid 1 for operating system
>   * 10x 1 TB sata drives in raid 5 for storage
>   * 15 total hot-pluggable harddrive slots
>   * Debian 7
>
> We could likely fit a few more sata drives inside, if we're ok with them
> not being hot-pluggable. If we filled it with 3 TB drives, then we could
> probably upgrade it to about 55 TB for about $2000 worth of drives.
>
> I also set up a phpbb support forum. The idea is that the stickers that go
> on the power supply will list the address h.sudomesh.org and that url
> will take them to a page (that doesn't yet exist) that links to user
> documentation, node operators documentation, developer documentation and a
> support forum. For now there is just the support forum at:
>
>   http://h.sudomesh.org
>
> aliases are: help.sudomesh.org and support.sudomesh.org
>
> I was tweaking the phpbb theme and was planning on switching the color
> scheme to something more in line with the sudo mesh colors (and maybe
> remove the jagged edges), but ran out of steam.
>
> More work to be don!
>
> Mesh The Planet!
>
> --
> marc/juul
>
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