Averaging the SNO

Who wants to use “economy”, like a beggar? ))

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At the time of this post. I have 15 Nodes in 4 countries running on 5 different ISPs.

This is mainly because I have free travel between countries. (Work perk).

I spend around 10-12 Hours monthly on maintenance. This includes digital clean-up alongside physical clean-up.

This is way overdue on my NASes. I’m too lazzy to put a vacuum cleaner in my car and visit 6 locations once in a while.

Yeah, I know the feeling. I am fortunate in that particular scenario because my work “makes” me travel to those locations.

Storj Plus and Storj Minus, obviously

“Storj Wide” actually sounds very snazzy. But Storj Public kind of sounds like public cloud which is sort of a close analogy

“Wide” thats nice catch.

Or Storj Open - like its open for everybody.
And Storj Select is only for selected.

(Both can be Global, so just global dont do justice)

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Performance could be higher on Storj Select in specific cases (like geofencing in the same city where is a customer or there is a direct link or exclusively configured performant servers).

So mainly “Select” has some additional (selected) premium features, which could be not available (or hard to apply) on Storj Global. Because even geofencing can be applied to the bucket on Storj Global too.

I like this one!

Storj Max and Storj Select

Storj Standard and Storj Premium,
Storj and Storj Pro

I think I wouldn’t count the time spend each month operating the storage node. I get busy usually when I have Internet connection issues, but it’s not happening regularly.

Already said by others just started last year and really hope to get out a fraction of purchase price of HDD if not and HDD dies in next years I rather abandon the project.

The majority of this project is hardware, electricity and internet connection. For me time spend is negligent.

But also thinking why dont let the customer choose what kind of redundancy is needed maybe just some cold backup storage needs less than hot storage?

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On one hand it would be useful, but someone can also choose very low redundancy and then complain that his data was lost. One hosting company I know offers cheaper VDSs with more storage, but explicitly says that they do not create backups, if you want, you have to back up the data yourself. I’m sure they still get complaints that data was lost.

Anyway, for me it’s one node and recently I have not spent a lot of time on it, only updating it when it is necessary. I did spend some hours trying to improve performance when there was the test with lots of ingress.

Amazon will already sell you cold storage for $1/TB/month: so how much would be left for Storj to pay node operators? You think SNOs are crying now:wink:

12 nodes, multiple locations all with their own different internet connection. i spend maybe max 1 hour per month per node. mostly doing os upgrades/updates and general maintenance to the hosts. last year i had more maintenance time due to the amount of files that stayed in the trash folder. but i would say… i do not spend that much time on storj, only when neccesary

Yes but there must be a difference between that and normal product right? At AWS you have to pick location. Currently StorJ only offers S3 storage and cold storage must be technically something different. Maybe another product StorJ could offer for competitive price

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