for me that would be solar, but the sun is not there enough to be reliable… and its gone for the night also
but points for pointing that out
i still think that power from the power company plus an extra gfci breaker and generator is the best option, at least for me if coupled with ups’s
@Alexey so just to for me to understand correctly…
i would be better of trying to figure a way to get nodes placed in datacenters?
or as an alternative 1 node with a big drive in it? or is it better with many smaller nodes?
what am i allowed to do to attract more data/traffic to get more $ in my pocket?
That would not qualify you for Select either, just to mention.
Maybe change your mindset? This is not Chia. At the end the amount of data depends on Storjs ability to attract (large) customers because it is their real data we are storing. That you can help with.
and that is not the thought behind, my thought was to get “arround” the /24 restriction by having more locations
but anyhow the life outside the door waits.. need to get food for the dog and for myself
But that’s really not what matters if the total amount of data stalls. You should direct your efforts towards helping to increase the total amount of data stored.
Dual generators. Just make sure they are different brands…
The biggest factor in how much you make, is your distance from us1.storj.io
AFAIK, if you would get an IP-Adress from your ISP, which is not a /24 subnet but for example a /20 subnet, you could create several /24 Subnets by your own locally, an map a node to each one, in this case you would have “several IP adresses” even though your ISP only gave you one. Other way is, using a VPS, but 1€ hosters are full with SNOs, if you use the Neighbor Checker, you can see it, so in this case you cap someone elses traffic and don’t get the full potential data.
It’s a requirement for Storj Select. The requirement is there because some customers require the certificates for their own compliance.
Yes, the pieces of paper do not really do much, but sometimes they are required by a customer.
For example, a company wants to become ISO 9001 compliant (for whatever reason, its’ their choice), their servers are hosted by another company, so now the service provider also has to be compliant and so on.
Renewables are unreliable, so a really bad option for backup power. Also, while the neighbors may not be happy about my generator, they would certainly be unhappy with a huge wind turbine in my yard.
Depends on the ISP. I can get a static public IP on a mobile connection and it does not cost much.
It’s a backup connection anyway, does not matter that much if it’s slower. My backup connection is 10mbps upload (100mbps download) and it is certainly better than not having it.
Not many ISPs will give you that many IPs. Getting a few from different /24s would be easier than getting a whole /20 block.
Better to try friends and relatives. Place a small low powered device on there internet etc.
Wyse Dx0Q and a 4GB+ HDD
I think if still available, an Odroid HC2 or even HC1 (if you have a 2.5" SSD/HDD), takes much less space, and consumes almost nothing. The problem with relatives, if something hangs up or something, you have to “bother” them. In this case a zero client with Wireguard for routing would be the better solution, bottleneck would be the own bandwidth then.
and in my case a 2 hour drive each way 
This is the gold standard. My friends and relatives all run Ubiquiti gateways that I manage lol, so I could technically route crap from any number of clean residential IP addresses. It just feels an asshole thing to do — becuse this would be actively working around the /24 restriction that was put in place for a reason.
12+ hours. I win! 
The key is to use hardware with IPMI. I literally reinstalled TrueNAS remotely when the boot drive died.
Its an hour drive to my nearest shop. Relatives only 3-4.
No grid power/water/gas, only Solar/Battery/Diesel(rarely) and rain water. Yet we have fibre internet 
Hadn’t actually thought about just using them as an endpoint. Hmmmm. Here’s me running full nodes..
HC4 available now, 2x sata, Wow. $$$
Whatever does the job for you.
Not at all, because data is transferred directly between the node and the customer (or the S3 Gateway or Linksharing on the customer’s behalf). The satellite is only an address book and a payments processor, even an audit and repair workers are not there, not saying about gateways.
There is no ideal location - for many clients you will always be too far away.
I’m currently paying $30/month for 12 TB of VPS storage. It doesn’t have the geographical distribution of Storj, but it would be profitable to run a node on that provider provided the storage could be filled quickly. I know other people operate nodes there as I checked my subnet.
12 TB node when full will pay about $25 at best.
(Which is why storj shall further reduce payouts — it’s still too much).
What you see is not nodes, but vpn bridges.
It would probably take… about 3 years(?) to fill a 12TB node?
Precisely. That’s how I know how much this exact size node earns
At the end it always comes down to one thing: Customers, customers, customers.
At the end it always comes down to one thing SNOs can control: IPs, IPs, IPs 
Since we’re talking about Th3Van: the few times I’ve peeked at his stats: his used-space average growth rate seems to be around 1TB/day. So he’d fill 12TB in about 2 weeks. (He controls around 40 /24s ?)