Donate bandwidth/disk space?
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| 1 | I've got an excessive home lab and have more bandwidth and storage than I need. Are there any decent projects I can donate resources to? Not keen on the CPU intensive stuff like folding at home and the like, as that uses heaps of power. joys_teddy - 2020-09-28 08:26:00 |
| 2 | Some of the vintage archives (Software and magazine scans) would use the space and I guess you could offer free backup and hosting for charity's.. but problem is that most people will want reliability, and a free backup using spare capacity will be seen as more risky than just paying for an S3 bucket. Had not thought about it, but we have a new SuperMicro server in the lab rack with a nice new Xeon; I think 20 cores and 64GB of RAM. Currently very lightly loaded with a couple of development VMs while we work on some projects. Could be fun to throw something CPU extensive on it to see now noisy the fans get gblack - 2020-09-28 17:40:00 |
| 3 | In case you are still interested, another option that I've come across is a BTFS node from Bittorrent, much the same as Storj if you have some spare Gigas Not sure if it pays quite as much as Storj, but on the other hand Storj seems to have slowed up a lot the last month or two - only getting half what I was... king1 - 2020-11-27 14:34:00 |
