22 10TB nodes spread over 8 sites. A few of them have been around since the first beta testing. They are just set and forget so 0h. But I keep an eye on the forum if something major is happening.
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I use Ceph too and at first the Metadata servers were a problem for me but after I moved the metadata for the disks onto NVMe drives and manually pinned a mds rank to the ceph folder everything’s been fine.
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20 узлов, мониторинг раз в сутки, внесения изменений в конфигурацию раз в неделю на небольших узлах
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I have 9 nodes configured. I spend approximately 1-3 hours a month on maintenance on a regular basis. If a node is behaving strangely I can spend between 8-16 hours since I am monitoring all of its activity.
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We have many nodes, I do spend an inordinate amount of time perfecting the demands of Storj nodes, as it has helped facilitate other endeavors within our DC. However, I do have the luxury of time, I’m well paid.
The extent of knowledge gained, has allowed us to triple our IOPs capacity on a Clusterd Vmware based vSan (all flash & hybrid) Windows server environment(s) with similar demands. Programmatically gapping NTFS’s MFT footprint to all flash resources, to equate & exceed ZFS special vdevs performance for small files. While allowing read/write acceleration of Storage Spaces back end for larger files (the other half of this equation). I’ve probably spent 80 hours on that alone; but, the results were more than fantastic - they were staggering. So time well spent; however, manipulating large datasets of over a billion files, is still time consuming.
During the testing earlier this year, the stretched clusters garnered about 800 mb/s continuously of Storj stuff. With the aforementioned improvements, I think our systems are now capable of 3 Gb/s+, for Storj purposes. Moreover, it’s allowed us to serve other stuff far more efficiently.
2 cents,
Julio
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173 узла на четырех локациях
Трачу дофига времени на бессмысленное созерцание графиков
На реальное обслуживание часов 10 в месяц
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Hi there,
I am currently running about 7 nodes.
Maintenance wise, I spend approximately about 1-2h a months, They are all windows based, so updates + some logs have to be deleted.
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0 nodes soon as Storj growth is missing.
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Growth has only been flat for about 3 months: if you wait long enough other SNOs will leave first and you’ll get their repair traffic 
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I think I have waited long enough.
Conditions are getting progressively worse, and the growth in traffic hasn’t been sufficient to offset the decline.
I guess this is my last month here.
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-how many nodes you operate?
14
-how much time you think you spend on your nodes per month performing any kind of maintenance?
i’d say 8-10h average
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Versus running your servers without storagenode and not receiving however small satisfaction of helping with containing the carbon footprint of world data storage?
I.e. you are dissatisfied with a small payout and somehow turning it zero is better?
I still fail to see how this makes sense. Am I the only idiot who would run nodes without compensation? I have spare resources. Better donate them than throw away. No? And storj buys you coffee forever for clicking two buttons to run their software once.
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4 nodes on same IP, they kinda just sit there and do nothing atm… CPU mining XMR on them at the same time so the PCs would be running anyway…
Couple of hours a month tops at the moment for maintenance, checking logs etc, excluding time staring at the dashboard forlornly hoping for used space to increase
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There is more than enough free space available so some SNOs leaving is a healthy thing in my opinion.
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Hey guys! You’re not good negotiators. When your employer asks how much time you’re spending on what they’re paying you to do, you should always inflate the numbers
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Yes of course. But Storj is incapable to find enough paying customers.
This start-up has failed.
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Of course. Because then I do not have to deal with all the stuff that comes with it. From running nodes to dealing with payments on L1 or L2 in microunits that cost more time than it brings.
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I understand what you mean — but for payments receipt specifically it is pretty much:
- get email from coinbase
- open app, swap all storj to usd (3 taps).
- click send to bank (2 taps)
- close app
Total 15 seconds of time. Barely an inconvenience. It probably can be automated, but it’s not worth the time investigating…
Or just send them to storj account if you need storage — zero involvement needed.
Running nodes take no effort past initial install — that’s why I feel it’s free coffee money. Or, 50% of electricity cost running my server. I’ll take that any time. Electricity here is expensive. $.52/kwh
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One more thing to install to monitor that brings me a micropenny at the end of the month that I cannot even withdraw without hassles or hurdles. Why should any sane person do that? It is just insane.
I mean they can’t even fill their self proclaimed $130K that they want to pay out to SNOs. What sense does this make?
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Maybe. Why did you initially do it? What changed now?
I do it because it was fun and I learned a lot about system performance for this interesting usecase of random access to millions of small files. And I don’t like burning energy down the drain.
And $50 is totally worth 15 sec of my time withdrawing. It’s not micro. $50 is $50.
That is for storj to worry about. From my perspective I spend no time and get three things in return.
- some money
- Satisfaction from donating unused resources to someone who can make use of them better than me wasting them
- Education is priceless.
For me it’s worth it. It would be worth it if storj paid $5/month flat rate too. I’m not making money running nodes, so why should I care?
Furthermore, I feel payouts should be reduced another 50%, otherwise current rates attract people who try to make running nodes “profitable”. It’s not supposed to be. It’s supposed to be slightly better than wasting.
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