Can Storj be deployed privately?

for honestly, it’s hard to disable the accounting, but you may never invoke the payment itself.
For the private usage I still believe that something like Ceph + MinIO could be better, however you may also test both solutions as well.
This:

The latency itself can be low with higher parallelism, but TTFB is not improved yet, however, we are working on it in multiple directions, for example

yes, it’s likely the slowest node in the selection.