I have scaled down my plans. For my personal farn I am going with OVH. At first during test safecoin I will get the 12TB server with upto 1gbs. I will also add a 30TB one after or just before launch. I will let you know how the test goes.
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I have only 4.18 Mbps upload speeds @ home, maybe it’s better not to invest to much in home equipment because of this and to go for some 1gbs online provider.
I dunno what to do yet because hosting from home is a plus for decentralization…
Maybe split funds and do some home farming and the rest online which gives the network better speeds …
We’ll see after some tests …
I would like to test with my gigabit connection and server as well. Are there any guides for setting up the test network?
MaidSafe has not opened SAFE to the public yet. They are still testing to make sure everything is working properly.
But I’m pretty sure it will be simple enough to setup your first vault and connect it to the SAFE Network. I plan to make a “how to” video to help everyone unless MaidSafe creates their own video instructions.
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Count me in, I’m keen to be involved.
Ready to provide at least 1gbps (potentially 100gbps within first year or so)
And alot of ram and space for maid as long as there’s demand!
I think maid will be feeling itself very great if the minimal software delivered and works as intended
I imagine a DAPP that people can run a vault for. It will be able to compound the safe generated with interest and share it with the farmers. A trustless cloud farm. The interest could be produced by a small fee for hosting a futures market among other things.
I just found out I can get 2gbs internet in my apartment. I am getting cheap laptops and 8TB hard drives instead of servers.
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You will be limited by your cost of interenet, as well as the cpu hashing/caching speeds.
As of yet we have no idea at all what the requirements of farming will be.
The problem with what you said is that every node should be using the network-supplied optimal stored space (for maximum cost efficiency), but you may be runing only a handful of nodes with 1TB of storage each, due to the processing/networking/disk resource limits.
A lot of people will probably do that too, just throw 50TB of hard drive space on the network and be done with it, but that’s extremely inefficient.
The SAFE vault manager I’m developing tries to account for all these cost variables and tunes the resource usage of your pc for maximum safecoin profit.
I’ve been developing it, but only so much can be done until the network is live.
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I’ve got my server up and running. OS is on a 500GB SSD with an additional 2 1TB internal SATA drives. Ready to get some bits flowing once DEVs release testing. Can’t wait!
I just through some stuff together that I had, but would love to see your SAFE Vault Manager when it’s done! I need to learn how to code! 
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Yeah I am aware it is a shot in the dark in terms of profitability But I am going to take some of maid profits and pay for the access with maybe 160TB divided among many commodity PC’s My friend has alienware pcs too he is letting me use to not only farm but mine cpu and gpu coins at the same time. Well it is a goal I will need to develop some more skill to accomplish. Over a petabit takes like a month for 2gbs (up n down) to go through.
What types of storage are you using?
I am now thinking of just using my friends 2 Alienware PC’s they have 3TB hard drives. Upgrading the internet to 2gbs would be expensive not even to mention getting much more hardware. I think it makes more since to be more modest and work with what got to contribute to the network.
My recommendation would be to use your current hardware, don’t buy anything, and see the kind of bandwidth drain it causes before committing to a year long contract for 2gb/s speeds.
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Count us in too.
We plan to deploy vaults on CentOS, FreeBSD and possibly OpenBSD (90% of our existing servers) and will be happy to share how we get on and publishing Chef recipes if applicable.
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Isn’t it possible that they could attract legal liability by hosting illegal content, by running vaults, and therefore they will stay away from it? Even if the legality is kind of murky, a grey, undecided area.
What I mean is, the distributed nature of the Safe network means that, if you are running many vaults then there’s bound to be chunks of illegal files on it, and a prosecutor, or clever shyster/ambulance-chaser, will find some way of attacking them.
The bigger the entity/company, the more legally proper they have to be, because of their deep and therefore attractive pockets.
But “ants” like most of us are under the radar, neither detectable nor perhaps worth going after even if detected.
I’m under the impression that the data chunks that will be hosted will be bit to kilobit in size, not large enough for an image or video. So, the data that will be in the vault will simply be random bits of data without the map.
Chunks are 1 MB (mega byte). Very small files will live directly in a data map, although I don’t know the details.
@bluebird, The vast majority of statutes involve criminal intent or at a minimum knowledge or the common man standard of implied knowledge from something that is obvious. The storage of shards of encrypted data not readable by the person storing the data or anyone other than the creator of the data should not provide any legal or other justifiable basis for alleging criminal conduct.
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