Plebstor is a community of volunteers. Plebstor is data. Plebstor is You. Plebstor is your data stored, for free, and forever.
If you want it.
Plebstor is a data storage network made up of peer-to-peer nodes. It uses open-source, freely available storage and clustering software such as Ceph, IPFS, Scality S3, MongoDB, MySQL, RabbitMQ, DRBD, KVM, WordPress, rsync, SSH or anything else that the peer to peer members of the community need in order to get their respective jobs done.
Be it backup storage for family photos and videos, shared folders for collaboration, a VPS server for a project, a WordPress website, or pretty much anything you need to host. The idea is that we want to provide secure, non-commercial peer-to-peer ways to do these things instead of having everything centered on corporations or dollars as payment.
Plebstor is hosted all over the world. Some people run Raspberry Pi’s or other servers at home. Others, servers run in datacenters or in the cloud. Some are hosted by people who know how node networks work, and others are hosted by people who think what we’re doing is cool and are willing to let us place a node under their care. All you have to do is feed it… by plugging in the cord.
We encrypt all of our storage at rest. When you use our services properly, none of your data is ever available to anyone to abuse. Not even our sysadmins can see the data stored on the system. Most data is actually encrypted before it even enters our system, in addition to being encrypted at rest.
Plebstor is non-commercial. It is not a company. It does not accept dollars as payment. It doesn’t even have a single mailing address to send a payment to. It’s made up of everyone who uses it. It is everywhere.
You or your organization can gain access to Plebstor by running a node. By running a node, you can participate in, and store and retrieve data from the Plebstor cloud.
You can choose to configure and admin your own node, or you can allow Plebstor sysadmins to do this for you.
At various times, we will have various testnets running, which develop our concepts and lead to systems that can be used in highly available production scenarios.
Right now, Plebstor is just getting started. We don’t have a terms of service or privacy policy. We are not a company, and we may choose not to work with you if you are one.
If you want to help us build our private testnet, we are first looking to spin up a Ceph cluster (https://ceph.io) and are actively recruiting member nodes for this purpose.
As we grow in node count, we will be able to offer even more services to the community. But, until you put your node online, you can’t use Plebstor.