[Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox For Cloud Services

[Josef Spillner]

Oi Melvin,

:: Melvin Carvalho Sonntag 05 Februar 2012
> I wonder if some freedomboxes could offer a secure cloud hosting
> service for a small charge.  You could host someone's files up to a
> disk/bandwidth limit  Since FBX is normally always on, it could be a
> nice way to have uptime.

Optimal (secure, safe, cheap, long-term, ...) online data storage ("in the 
cloud") is one of the challenges of interest to me. There is a two-phase 
methodology to it: 1) Making the best out of the current situation to help 
users quickly, e.g. splitting data intelligently between commercial storage 
providers and user-provided resources, and 2) In parallel, a more long-term 
effort, establish independent community resource sharing networks underneath 
the storage tools. For instance, multiple connected freedom boxes with a 
certain minimum amount of redundancy.

For 1), see nubisave.org for details. NubiSave is already available as a 
Debian package, although lacks testers and feedback from early adopters, and I 
would be happy about improved packaging and making it available from the main 
archive (with appropriate warnings until an extensive safety audit).

For 2), see http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0970 for an initial sketch, although the 
document is already slightly outdated and will be updated rather soon with 
more implementation details. All sources are available from the 
serviceplatform.org Git repositories for the impatient.

Josef