[Mesh] Storage server and support forum

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Awesome work Marc!

I am Super-Ultra-Mega pleased that the Server is in good hands/group
and for a noble cause.

Mesh El Planeta!

Daniel


On 1/21/14 2:02 AM, Marc Juul 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 
> <http://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 <http://help.sudomesh.org> and 
> support.sudomesh.org <http://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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