Hi guys, I read in some topics that there has been some bans on free accounts because they were using them for Chia plotting. From that moment, it looks like there has been significantly less traffic. Also, there are a lot of deletions going on on my nodes. Do these events link with eachother? Was …

[image] pietjebell: bans on free accounts because they were using them for Chia plotting. Can you point out the post that mentions this? [image] pietjebell: Was the increase in traffic we have seen over the last few months due to the use of free accounts It was due to misuse of said f…

[image] nerdatwork: Can you point out the post that mentions this? [image] The free quota removed? Three points: First off, we have not removed the free quota! Anyone who signs up today gets 25 GB free. Secondly, if you have an old account, you still have the old…

Yes I am fully aware that deletions are normal behaviour. And yes, I am also aware that this was a misuse of the free accounts. But I’d still like to ask if the high amount of traffic was due to these factors, or if there have been other factors at play. Maybe to be more concrete in my reasoning: i…

The high ingress on the EU satellite over the last several weeks is most likely due to the abuse. The pattern of massive increase in accounts with massive ingress but almost no egress was a bit unusual. It could have been some huge customer onboarding but now as we know that there has been abuse of …

Hmm, alright. The whole Chia plotting makes sense, because I already found it odd that there was a hugh influx of data, but my nodes were barely growing. But I think it’s good to know that these numbers were seeing is more reasonable then what we’ve seen the last weeks/months

Please note, there is no “normal” patterns usage by the customers. It can grow up and settled down, depends on the customers’ needs. So any changes in the traffic flow or usage in the past doesn’t guarantee the same usage in the future. And vice versa.

That’s true while the network is small. As you begin having thousands of customers their individual “unpredictable” patterns merge into an overall cyclic “almost predictable” pattern (daily, weekly, monthly and if the network lives long enough even yearly.). So yes, eventually we will have somethi…

I couldn’t have phrased it better, thanks for that! That is exactly how I see it. We’ll see how it turns out over the next months. Traffic for my nodes is sure a lot quieter

Deletions due to crackdown on Chia plotters?

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jammerdan April 25, 2023, 6:58am 3