Can Storj can lower costs and increase usage?

[Alexey]

Hello @Koesters,
Welcome to the forum!

@Koesters

1.) I can’t see this scaling for SNO. Essentially the system demands that SNO have full failover capacity (100% uptime and no faults on connection).

The requirements you can see there: Step 1. Understand Prerequisites - Storj Docs, your node should be online at least 99.5%, 100% is desired, but not required.
The held amount is calculated accordingly ToS, and you can see details here: Node Operator Terms & Conditions or in the documentation: How does held back amount work? - Storj Docs

@Koesters

5.) This feels a lot like Adsense in the beginning. Work work work for a couple of pennies. Money can be withdrawn not by Google but by Storj on an algo change.

Don’t get it. Could you elaborate? There is no algorithms like in mining, so just don’t get it.

@Koesters

without clear feedback or any form to check how the system looks from storj’s view. The audit suspension online is too few information.

These metrics are only matter, and you can see them on the dashboard. We doesn’t have any other at the moment. If you want to see details, like used coefficients from storj/docs/blueprints/node-selection.md at 6a553ec9c5df94681c88ada43a6b9ae18464b8ee · storj/storj · GitHub, you can use storagenode’s API: Storage node dashboard API (v1.3.3)

@Koesters

9.) One satellite went from 100% to 0 overnight, others are 100 and others at 90 something. All are satellites are pingable. Putting the whole system in DMZ.

Please, do not use DMZ, it’s dangerous - you open every single port of your device to the whole internet, use port forwarding instead.
If your node doesn’t have audits for a month, every downtime will affect your online score much more, because your node simple doesn’t have enough audits.
To make sure that your node is online we recommend to use uptimerobot.com
Your online score should recover in the next 30 days online. Every downtime will reset this counter and requires to have the next 30 days online. You can read more there: How is the online score calculated? - Storj Docs