Network Growth Update

jammerdan · September 21, 2024, 2:50am

I had made a suggestion like that:

Discussion on Commercial Storage Node Operator Program

What I like is that it is implemented on bucket level. In theory a company could use both networks. Let’s say the commercial network (is that really a good term? I don’t think so.) for hot and critical data, the public network for non-critical data. I am not convinced but at least in theory a company could save some mony storing at least non-critical date on the public network and ‘learn’ about its advantages by using it. But I don’t think that will happen at scale.
Maybe Storj needs to do some more rethinking about what incentives or penalties might work to support the public network. For example it should be dead easy for a company to move data from the ‘commercial’ network to the public network. Maybe this can be done by server side copy and without cost for the customer. If they have to pay large sums to move data between the different networks I don’t see a reason for them to do so.
Also maybe a free tier could be offered on the public network depending on how much they are storing on the commercial network? Store 100PB on the commercial network and get 100TB for free on the other network to try it out. Something like that maybe?
I definitely see the need to push the public network into the eyes of those obviously large enterprises with large datasets that want to move their data to Storj.

It would be dead easy for the Storj sales team to offer such a customer even free storage on the public network, like 1 PB. If they cannot use it due to legal reasons, it won’t cost them anything. And if the start to use it, it is an invest into the public network.

Also as suggested, it should be dead easy to move data from the Select network to the public network. It should not be required to re-upload the data.
This way, customers could try out the Select network, gain confidence and start moving less critical data to the public network and gain confidence on that too.