Yes, I’ve seen it …
" My server is actually a VPS in Germany…"
Storj treats all geographic locations the same. The only difference is latency between node and customer, but even then you would expect to still see the transfer, just not as successful.
Latency can have some impact in regions like China where there are few international interconnects and and a great firewall in between to slow things down. But the impacts are rare in other places.
The node also seems to have collected very little data over 17 months. I would have expected around 6TB to be on there based on current network behavior, but ingress was actually better in the past. Lets see what @Stob says, but I think he will have between 6-8TB.
I may make some changes to the success rate script to compare against started transfers. Maybe somehow some of them get stuck and never log anything after start. Will need to find some time for that later though. Today will be a busy day.
Ah this is where usage of terminology is different. I would class a 9TB node as one with 9TB of used data, not that it had 9TB of allocated space.
My node has 9.98TB used:
The node is located in London, UK. At no point has my node filled up, I have continually added/allocated more space when the free space dropped below 100-300GB.
Not only China. Russia certainly has it as do many countries in the Middle East. (inc UAE).
I think even Australia poisons some ip lookups if you use isp dns for any reason instead of something like cloudflare.
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That’s probably true, but as far as I know we have quite a few successful node operators from Russia posting here. They don’t seem to see similar effects. Could be different per region though.
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Russia tends to make themselves known when they screw up. Like when they blocked Telegram last year and ending up making half of Amazon inaccessible inside Russia. I’m sure the corporates were not amused. lol
I guess they’re not exactly known for doing things subtly.
They have a project called “sovereign internet” they have been working on for a while to go full isolation if the need is there as they perceive it. How that would work in practice…
As usual. Unfortunately most of highly qualified IT specialists prefer to work somewhere else, thus they have only what remained, lack of knowledge and tiny experience guarantees unexpected results - a lot of errors and rude decisions. They can easily break the internet inside the country.
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Very, very true Alexey. We have some personal experience of it but I can’t really go into public details.
Ultimately, the offer to pay for September - $ 4.73 (after 18 months online)
which after subtracting the costs (electricity, service etc) = doesn’t make sense
Therefore, my colleague turned off the node, reformatted the disk, and for the less than $ 8 of the withheld amount, let Storj repair 2.4TB of lost data. There was little on the part of Storj
interest in the problem of one node with Suspension and Audit 100% and the worst one Online 99.71%
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I uninstalled my node for the same reason. Running a storage node doesn’t make sense for me. Yes, this is not mining, but there are electrical costs. This will make sense only in corporate data center where you have lots of unused storage and 24/7 operations.
What do you mean? Did you also have Egress 1/10 of what others have?
Not only.
My personal example - I have a home server, it’s online and will be online with Storj or without. It has free disk space, why not cover part of my bills with earnings from sharing this free space?
Actually my nodes covers all my electricity bills + some of other bills, but it’s another story - Costs of electricity to run a storagenode
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