We are implementing a new process to remove data from accounts with outstanding bills and violations of our terms and conditions. Historically, we refrained from doing this out of an abundance of caution, hoping those customers would eventually return and settle their balances. However, these delinquent accounts have accumulated, and it is now time to address the issue with a comprehensive cleanup.
As part of this effort, we have identified that this will have a notable impact on the EU1 satellite, where over 1 PB of data will be removed. We wanted to inform you of this as we proceed with the cleanup.
Sounds like a solid business decision. If the customers aren’t paying their bills for space… but Storj is still paying the SNOs for space, that has to stop.
My guess is… if we know there are a huge number of Storj nodes now in that geo… there were probably a huge number of Chia nodes as well: and there was a time when it was profitable to at least try to farm Chia on S3 storage.
When Chia became unprofitable: those users probably abandoned their accounts full of plot files and just stopped paying the bills.
Like I said, a guess. But that type of usage could have easily chewed up a PB.
Do you have a link? Because in November-December 2024 there was a migration of AP1 and EU1 satellites to a new database backend, so some data could be missing for some period, but later it should have been recovered.
Seems you didn’t specify the date range, so… I do not see a big drop.
What’s available on that link is just a confirmation of what’s I’m saying - there was no stat data during migration…
So, seems not a big deletion, just missing statistics data…
It recovered very slowly over one month or so. This looks like a real loss to me which only recovered because of normal growth. Maybe a big customer who left end of the year?
No Problem with the many new PB-Customers in Pipeline promised the last year /s
Sorry to be sarcastic, but thats another Bad News for the SNO in the Public Network.
I see no growth for the last year, except the select-Network (maybe).
Sad because it’s a nice project and an Impressive Technology the Team created.
Companies produce hundreds of zettabytes of data annually…that’s zettabytes . Storing and managing it affordably is becoming a major concern. In a recent Virtana survey, 54% of IT leaders said their cloud storage costs were rising faster than other cloud costs.
So where are they:
Instead of 1 PB growth we gonna see another PB purge from the public network.
