Send.neofs launch
Last week, we provided access to NeoFS TestNet and the Send.NeoFS service for the community. The first test stage allows users to take advantage of storing objects on a real NeoFS network by loading objects through a web interface send.neofs.neo.org and working with them through anywhere.
Send.NeoFS is a convenient web-service for temporary data storage in the NeoFS network free of charge. It demonstrates an example of the integration of NeoFS and real web services via HTTP protocol. Send.NeoFS allows anyone to upload a file to the NeoFS TestNet, and generate a link that can be shared as desired.
It is worth noting, our current test setting uses only one HTTP gate, but It is possible to make a fault-tolerant storage system with globally distributed HTTP gates, i.e. content delivery network system. Creating a sample CDN backed by NeoFS may be one of our future demos. We want to thank all TestNet participants who asked a question regarding a distributed HTTP gate in social media.
Users may also work with NeoFS via neofs-cli uploading (downloading) files directly to (from) NeoFS storage nodes in a fully decentralized manner.
Objects stored in the NeoFS TestNet are distributed across multiple geographically decentralized storage nodes which are currently located in St Petersburg, New York, Singapore, London, Bangalore, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Frankfurt. We started with a minimal number of nodes, enough to collect some network metrics during the TestNet launch. Later we will give the possibility for everyone to run their own NeoFS nodes and join Testnet.
The following restrictions are imposed on the network:
- Maximum upload size is 50 Mb
- Files may be uploaded on Send.NeoFS with a user-specified lifetime of 15 minutes, 1 hour, 24 hours, or 48 hours
- Work with the network does not require tokens for convenient testing at this stage.
First-week summary
- We have fixed a bunch of non-intuitive bugs which we could not predict before actual public TestNet.
- We have tuned system parameters to make NeoFS work more stable in a globally distributed setting.
- We have collected and taken into account useful feedback from TestNet participants with respect to functionality and UX/UI of send.neofs
A new feature: network state monitoring
Today we have added a new feature to Send.NeoFS service to monitor NeoFS network state. Users may visually control data distribution in the network on the dashboard generated in Grafana.
Here we go: Status of the Send.NeoFS link
