14 nodes in total here
All in one apartment, on 1 PC.
All on VPNs.
All IP’s from different country
All has no neighbor node
(in 2 case i saw 1 or 2, but i changed the server instance, and it was alone again,
also my nodes are full now, so don’t need more filling)
All VPNs for total $10 a month.
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I didn’t notice any limitations for me. Sure it adds latency for STORJ customers! TTFB.
Costs me $0,71 per node, its a lot Yes if my nodes are around 1 TB, but if it was 8-18TB then it’s like nothing for ability to fill 7TB in under a year. Like i was able to do with one node. Just couldn’t find right time to upgrade more HDDs, always more important things… but the setup is there!
Time. A configuration of a port forwarding with VPN is significantly easier for what i discovered.
No playing with Your home router at all.
You just make lets say 9 virtual machines on 1 PC, each with it’s own windows, and You install a VPN app, chose location, and in the panel of a VPN provider You just set the port forwarding on that location, and voilà!
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It is. Upload is 15-30Mbps, per a node, and my connection is 1000/300 fiber so yea i can handle all nodes. its a perfect setup. bypassing all that /24 rule nonsense.
For 3 and half years working flawlessly.
So much of a decentralization of STORJ as of now.
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Sure it is. For me.
Because i have found great VPNs, and i was searching back then, not gonna lie.
But for the network? and the future of STORJ? …
When it privilege big SNOs, that can go 18TB HDDs per node?
and buy VPNs? or some deal with data centers?
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Sure it would. If bandwidth price for customers won’t go down, there would be equally slow HDD filling for everyone.
Now, only ones who either have 1 big HDD,
or bypass 24 rule with many nodes 1 location, get’s decent traffic, to fill nodes to the full.
If You get rid of /24, it will take that advantage out of them.
Now people in home who have 1 node, and want to add 2nd or more,
have to go big in TB so it would be worthy to pay for some VPNs additional IPs,
or get filled slowly.
It discourages small TB HDDs owners, and so the decentralization.
Because too many nodes in 1 physical place atm, imitating different locations, to bypas /24 rule, and You don’t even know how much % of a network.
If /24 rule would be gone, then at least, You would know what the real numbers are?
As of there were no need to pay for VPNs, or additional IPs pools?
Ppl would drop that costs happily.
But imho You would need to watch what data You are distributing to the same /24 pool,
You know, not too much pieces of the same file.
So there should still be some limitation to get data in same network,
but a reasonable one, not like that kind it is now with strict /24 rule.
So there would not be a repeat as with v2, like @Pentium100 mentioned.
What?
How its prevents this? I though it encourage it!
I think they got larger address pools to choose from, than same /24
and they are using it, to bypass 24 rule.
Like in my example.
Tho VPNs are not data centers servers (VPS) but the VPNs traffic goes via data centers? i believe.
actually i didn’t realise i can drop those VPNs now, as my HDDs are full,
if im not going to expand HDDs space lol, ohhh man… still hesitate, if You going to nuke the network future with payouts lower by roughly half,
i don’t know if there’s any future for STORj at all.
tho, with bigger HDDs i would sure profit till the end!
So much of a provocation, but to be serious,
that’s why i think all here is like in clock mechanism, it interlocks itself.
if You take one gear out, a pinion, others are not working or malfunctioned.
Therefore, it is necessary to look holistically and use strategies that are known for their effectiveness, throughout history.
That’s why i wrote this here as You probbaly already saw,
i swear i was not on drugs, just passionate.