Announcement: Changes to node payout rates as of December 1st 2023 (Open for comment)

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@Alexey

They are cost nothing as a public ones. I did not get what do you mean?

Announcing Storj Commercial Storage Node Operator Program

Storj operates a public network that anyone can join with tens of thousands of nodes in over a hundred countries. Enterprise customers have workloads that are appropriate for the network, but, for some storage use cases, those enterprise customers need specific types of storage in specific types of facilities. To serve those customer requirements, Storj created the Commercial Storage Node Operator Program. This program is for large scale storage providers with significant available storage and …

Specifically:

• The commercial node operators have a significantly different cost structure. Because of the scale at which they operate they typically accept much lower payout rates because of the efficiency of their operations. But due to the removal of the /24 restriction on these data sets the operators can still have meaningful earnings despite receiving payout rates that are lower than the public network.

I take it as the commercial node operators willing to accept lower payouts than the public node operators. As such, the commercial nodes would be cheaper for Storj even if Storj did not charge the SOC2 customers more.

Unless, of course, the commercial node operators now get more than the proposed rates for the public node operators.

@Alexey

I do not think that the public network could vanish, not everyone wants a more expensive SOC2-compliance, there are plenty of customers who just want a better price, decentralization, end-to-end encryption, CDN-like behavior (the speed would be the same from any place in the world), global availability and s3-compatibility.

But how many customers actually use the native uplink or run their own gateways instead of using the edge services which remove the encryption aspect and partially remove the decentralization aspect.