sad bee noises
I got yesterday some requests, that pinned my upload at maximum for a few hours. But overall my stats are pretty consistent. Nothing special for me
So for the last 10 months, I’m pretty leveled at ~110 TB stored on 18 nodes/10 IPs. I hope for the next 12, we will see an up trend, but… I don’t know. June was awful, showing only +580GB more than may.
This would implicitly suggest that you either do not trust your own storage network or are considering betraying your SNOs. I would not run a node for your company.
I think it’s different – keeping a horde of on-demand nodes across the world in various datacenters is a very good idea to absorb spike demands, or perhaps to improve CDN usecase performance: if there is a file that is accessed millions of times from across the globe every day – it makes sense to replicate it to a horde of low latency small nodes – this will improve apparent performance for everyone, and cost storj less money. (Eventually this data can further migrate to regular nodes if it remains in demand, with perhaps signinificantly overkill erasure coding scheme, or kept on on-demand nodes only, that (either data or node) can be thrown away once demand passes.
There is no competition – nodes serve stability needs, on-demand nodes serve performance needs.
Then if demand persists long term – storj can facilitate more operators to join – which is a slow process, unlike spinning up VPSes from a disk image.
Not doing this would be reckless and detrimental to network stability.