# Please come back, random uploaders **URL:** \ **Category:** Node Operators\ **Created:** [June 27, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973 "2026-06-27T15:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ElectraFish](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/electrafish/32/1122_2.png) [@ElectraFish](https://forum.storj.io/u/ElectraFish)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973/21 "2026-07-01T03:36:17Z")
Yes. Way too long between the announcement and clarification for TrueCloud users. The huge price hike went rippling across social media, regardless of whether or not emails were sent June 1 to TrueCloud users. I dumped my Storj data immediately and started looking for another solution because it takes time to delete/upload/transfer data and I wasn’t going to wait until the last minute to get hosed with a huge July bill. ---
**Author:** ![akester](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/akester/32/1139_2.png) [@akester](https://forum.storj.io/u/akester)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973/22 "2026-07-01T03:54:18Z")
Based in the Central US and I’m seeing the same as Th3Van: the daily spike around 00:00 UTC is gone (7PM in these charts). I haven’t see a hugely dramatic change in my 7 and 30 day storage deltas yet, I’m still in the net positive overall. ![chart-new](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/7/7/776610039a6d43c7a10fbdba146c1fb9eb383157.png) ![chart-old](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/9/0/90cc68ab05d2423327aa32cf4cd5b3f4f61f9502.png) ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973/23 "2026-07-01T07:52:23Z")
Hello @ElectraFish , Welcome back! > [@ElectraFish](#): > > get hosed with a huge July bill. August 2026 ivoice will be the first month with a new pricing. July 2026 invoice for usage in June 2026 will still use your current pricing. ---
**Author:** ![Toyoo](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/toyoo/32/1126_2.png) [@Toyoo](https://forum.storj.io/u/Toyoo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973/24 "2026-07-01T11:30:46Z")
Do I understand correctly that a single byte stored on July 1st would trigger the 50 USD minimum on the August bill for non-TrueNAS, non-token-payment customers? ---
**Author:** ![heunland](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/heunland/32/6076_2.png) [@heunland](https://forum.storj.io/u/heunland)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973/25 "2026-07-01T11:55:06Z")
I believe it would have to be enough total usage to add up to at least 1 cent, so about 1.4GB, but I might be wrong ---
**Author:** ![Roxor](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roxor/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roxor](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roxor)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973/26 "2026-07-06T00:34:59Z")
> [@seanr22a](#): > > it would be interesting to know if you had the same decline as we had in Europe. This is a late reply: but maybe it’s better that more time has passed. Most of the money has always come from the US Satellite (so I believe nodes close to the US won-more/earned-more)… but now it seems… worse? Using Th3Van as a reference the outbound/download traffic has always seemed to move the same way (like if it went up in the EU: it went up in the US… and if it doubled in the EU it doubled in the US… even if the exact numbers weren’t the same). BUT now it seems inbound/upload traffic is noticeably higher in the US. However I know I saw a recent post from a Storjling that they’ve been doing Satellite maintenance (move to a new database?)… so maybe we can’t trust any recent traffic numbers. Perhaps the new $50-minimum change dropped comparative way more small EU customers than in the US? We probably have to watch things for a few months before we can infer anything. ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973/27 "2026-07-06T03:52:28Z")
US1 is not migrated yet. However, it would be weird if the migrated satellite could have a different traffic volume. [Previous page](https://forum.storj.io/t/please-come-back-random-uploaders/31973.md?page=1)