# Evaluating Incoming and Repair Bandwidth to Storage Ratio Demands?

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**Created:** [January 1, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/evaluating-incoming-and-repair-bandwidth-to-storage-ratio-demands/10969 "2021-01-01T16:14:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/evaluating-incoming-and-repair-bandwidth-to-storage-ratio-demands/10969/7 "2021-01-01T16:30:18Z")

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There is no such a thing like a linear dependency on provided space or bandwidth and actual usage (or as you call it “Ratio Demand”).  
The Community has an average statistics though, thus you can use this Community Earnings estimator to get an idea:

> [@Realistic earnings estimator](https://forum.storj.io/t/realistic-earnings-estimator/6693):
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> The original earnings estimator is no longer online, so I’m altering this suggestion to advocate for the return of a realistic earnings estimator. In the mean time SNOs can use this community version to get a good estimate of the earnings potential. Please be respectful of others using this sheet. If someone else is looking at their results, give them a moment before overwriting their inputs or copy the sheet to your own Google account to fill in your own inputs. The sheet is protected against …

But in general the renting a VPS is not a wise idea. As you already know, the space and bandwidth are used by real people, thus no predictable income or usage. But you should pay for the server every month.  
In the first 9 months your node will receive not a big amount of money for the service.  
If your datacenter have other nodes in the same /24 subnet of public IPs, they will be treated as a one node, so profitability will be very questionable.

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