Recently active topics in Wuala tagged with uptime

Hi people,

as most of you may have recognized, when you install Wuala, your uptime is automatically set to 10%. Now the support team somewhere here posted that if you stay online for an entire day, you increase this by approximately 3%. Doing the quite simple math you will find that wuala therefore assumes 29 days of an approximate uptime of 10%. Therefore even if I have a server online 24/7/4 (i.e. 28 days), my uptime will only be 55%. I realize that that is a measure to restrict people from getting lots of online space very quickly but I find it myself very irritating and not particularly fair to those who from day 1 on contribute a server to the network with relatively good upload and a lot of space. (How good I am as a contributer my be disputed but for now, 15gb@50kbps 24h/day is definitely quite a bit)
I agree, that giving me 15gb of space (plus 1gb for basic and 1gb/invitation) is very much. Also, if every user can get almost 100% in some time, the system will never work out because you can have a maximum of 1version of a file online at the same time in the long run which effectively means that there is no rundancy and files can quite easily be offline for an entire day.

Thus my idea:

Maybe calculate 5-10days of 10% online time for people starting and instead of giving "Sharedspace"*"Uptime"="OnlineStorage" only give half the online storage in return.Or maybe 3/4.

Anways, I think that would be more fair to those who contribute a lot (setting up servers) and would also allow for more rundancy.

Last but not least I believe that nobody is seriously going to need 100% of his space back. Online space in any case is far more valuable than offline space which makes quala so interesting in the first place. Therefore I believe that you can very well only give 50%-75% of the space back and in exchage allow for higher rundancy and secured on-time.

Furthermore I would also opt to remove the local backup or at least archive the files on the servers in such a way, that the local backup is a max of 5% the total size (so it being rundancy information for the archive)

Hi,
If I recall corrently, I have alrealdy once posted this but I'l do it again: I would like to have a feature which automatically updates Wuala without me constantly having to exit and restart wuala (It should probably be optional). This feature would by now save me a great deal of time considering that my server is (after some windows-inflicted downtime) now up for 21 days in a row and I have approximately 10 times had to go there and exit/restart wuala just to check for any updates.

Hi folks,

as you may or may not be capable of reproducing/following, the uptime graph of an avergae wuala user will roughly follow a y=1/(x+1)+10 shaped graph with asymptote at 100. so all those very dedicated sharers of storage can never range up to the 99.9% uptime they achieve since there is 1 month of presumed 10% online time. This does not really seam very fair in my eyes. aditionally, if someone has build up one year of 99% uptime and then goes on a vacation, he will 1. take an incredible amount of time to restore his 99% and 2. if he permanently has to take his server offline (for whatever reason), he will continue to get huge amounts of space while not sharing for very long. (significantly longer than a year).

I think it would be smarter to make the long-time average of maybe 2-4 month so that the online-time is only relatively temporarily influenced and users which stop sharing din't get humongous amounts of storage for such an extended period of time.

Comments, opinions etc please!