A Follow-up on the New Minimum Usage Fee – and a Request for Feedback

[jammerdan]

@CutieePie

there were discussions years ago about giving this away for free was a bad idea (someone might be able to link)

Different prices for gateway usage was suggested several times like here:

Updates and Live Q&A Twitter Space March 15, 2023 @ UPDATED START TIME 2:00pm ET

Given the expense of edge services. Have you considered differentiating pricing, perhaps by lowering cost of native integrations and adding a small additional charge to use edge services? This adds an additional incentive to use native or self hosted S3 gateway.

and here:

Update Proposal for Storage Node Operators

I understand that something needed to change to keep Storj viable. That’s why I started my previous topic to begin with. I even understand that my guess at what payout could be in the future may have been a little optimistic. I mentioned as much in that topic. But I am a little disheartened by the large range of future payouts proposed below that $1/$5/$5 suggestion. Especially on the egress side of things. I was really hoping these payout changes would come alongside cost saving changes on the …