How does th3van do it?

[jammerdan]

@boelle

select gets paid more… or so they say

Where do they say that?

What is the advantage of a “premium node” from a customer perspective?

The Select network serves a specific purpose where a customer needs regulatory compliance otherwise they would not choose Storj for data storage:

Network Growth Update

Hello Storj Community, We are so excited about the growth of customer data that we have been experiencing on the network. It has been quite the journey. It is amazing to realize that two years ago, we were excited by a customer with 10s of TB. Last year we were excited to see customers with 100s of TB. This year we saw a growing number of single digit PB customers. We just signed our first double-digit PB storage customer and we have many in the pipeline. Many of which look promising for us to …

Network Growth Update

You might want to read the annoncement more carefully. The customer decided last minute that the public network doesn’t work for them. We even explained to them that storj select is running the same code so there is no difference. I can say in this instance we did our best to push them using the public network but their response was no way we need storj select or we have to bail out.