Longterm business viability of storj

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@wzrdtales

• Do you really think that relying on non professional storage will longterm provide a stable business model. The question arises from the fact that providing storage to storj is only viable when it is a hobby and not really serious. I.e. it is not done to provide storage with the full intention to keep it available, but instead you had some leftover and don’t really care. At some point the demand will exceed what this class of storage can offer.

Yes. The moment Storj actually starts needing exabytes of storage, it will be viable for professional actors to contribute storage as well. Consider that right now Hetzner sells non-redundant storage at ~1.2 USD/TB. They’d probably be quite happy to host Storj data at 1.5 USD/TB the moment Storj actually starts having enough data for professionals to care.

@wzrdtales

I have put the cost together and had to see that the cost model is actually cost negative, let me know if you know if there was a mistake, but otherwise my question is: Is storj gonna raise the cost in the future and this is only a promotion price?

See New pricing announcement for discussion on this topic.