[Mesh] Storage server and support forum

[Steve Berl]

++Awesome;

-steve


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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-steve
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