A year as a Storage Provider on Sia and Storj networks

Additionally if your node is offline it’s pieces will be marked as unhealthy. And for all segments that drop below the repair threshold, repair will kick in and you’ll lose that data. This has impact long before suspension kicks in. You really want to prevent that.

Storj doesn’t favor you if you provide more than the network needs. And for good reason. For the customer it’s better to have pieces randomly spread out and just use the long tail cancelation. This leads to the best performance and reliability. Any preferential treatment would lead to higher centralization, without helping the customer.

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