How do user accounts work?

Hi @sanderpick,
Welcome, it sounds as though you may not know the terminology yet, as your question doesn’t fully make sense. Here is a quick detail on the difference between node and satellite:

A storagenode (node) is one of thousands of end points which store the shards of encrypted data. The nodes are only aware of their own owner’s email address, wallet address and a list of approved satellites.

A satellite is a distributed server cluster which manages the user accounts, billing, storage locations, node vetting, node auditing, etc.

From your question I think you are asking about user accounts on satellites. User accounts are registered to a satellite entity, and satellites are distributed across multiple regions.

Edited after @nerdatwork pointed out my error.

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