It may cost more for clients but Knowledge has indicated it is cheaper for Storj thus there is nothing stopping Storj implementing a cheaper tier for clients with perhaps less features.
Thus, so long as there is the capacity available replacement of the public network is still viable exactly as Knowledge indicated.
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Exactly, this is as Knowledge indicated.
I see. I didnāt think it this way, sorry.
Still, we at Storj do not see any incentive to remove a public network for many reasons, include but not limited to:
And also a possibility to have a geofence (in case of SOC2 nodes there is no choice, at least now).
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The issue is Alexey, Storj have said absolutely nothing about the Commercial network until the recent pricing issues arose. Again, communication has been a problem here.
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Please do not compare the offers of your provider, electricity costs, and the overall development of infrastructure and society in your region with other parts of the world. What is normal, usual, cheap, or expensive for you may work very differently just beyond the borders of your city, let alone the country or continent.
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Sure, but is such a customer going to put their trust in possible future expansion of the network? I would be pretty hesitant if not highly averse to decide to go with a platform that at present has nowhere near the amount of available space that you would need for your use case. I also wouldnāt want to be a customer who has like more than half of all the data stored on the network.
Iām not so sure. Last time they used similar words when they lowered prices and it took, whatā¦ years, before they aligned node payouts? Now at that time, there was a clear unit economics pressure to make changes at some point, which there isnāt anymore. Companies just never want to say āweāre never changing payouts againā or give fixed timelines, because the future is unpredictable. And Storj knows they would get an avalanche of complaints if they break their words. I do expect more of an exodus should that happen. I think weāll be good for a while, but maybe Iām too trustingā¦
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No, the data was removed from the satellites long before they shut down and garbage collection ran many times in between. Most nodes will hold only a tiny fraction or nothing at all for those satellites. You should only really have to take action if something went wrong with GC on your end or if you want to clean up the minimal fraction of data left.
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Everything is happening in parallel, by different teams. So commercial network is completely unrelated to the price change for the public network.
You may imagine this relation, but the true that itās really unrelated. These are completely different teams.
The reducing payout has an own schedule, see the initial thread:
The commercial network has own:
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It would have been trivial for them to say āwe wonāt make changes for the next 12 monthsā. They chose to use the usual corporate speak which, as I alluded to in my previous post, is essentially meaningless.
I completely understand why (corporations would use corporate speak, after all) but my point is just that statement has no power or credibility.
And as for how they did things beforeā¦ āpast performance is no guarantee of future resultsā 
As of today, my nodes store 75TB, and thereās the same amount of free space available. Is this considered a large storage node? Iāve heard for years that the team has spoken with major SNOs and made some decisions. However, Iāve never participated in such conferences and have never received an invitation from Storj.
I have 290TB of data, and also havent heard about it.
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I wasnāt part of the discussions so I donāt know the criteria they used to determine large node operators.
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Then why did you write this if, in fact, you donāt have information about it?
I know the White House sent an aircraft carrier to the Middle East. It doesnāt mean I was on the phone with the President.
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Comment of the week! 
Not really, @d4rk4 is pointing something crucial about nature of publishing informations hereā¦
āStorj reached out to large nodesā ā¦, some nodes, somewhere, sometime, no information about the details, but You have to be satisfied with that, and best if not ask followups, or you will be disposed of with some funny analogy.
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Actually, there are two. Ford and Dwight D. Eisenhower so it appears you didnāt get that right either.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aircraft-carriers-what-they-bring-middle-east-2023-10-15/
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This is absolutely correct. We have situations in Australia where one side of the street may get fast internet and the other side may be stuck on fixed wireless. It sucks.
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Well, playing devilās advocate hereā¦. It would be nice for us to know but why do you think youāre entitled to?
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i donāt know? i only noticed the problem of whole point to even share those information in general, if it in fact, carries no information, just to cast some unnecessary shadows of, some node, somehere, sometime, causing confusion and pointless followups like this one ā¦ but glad You acKNOWLEDGEd the devil.