Hello.
Have you ever thought and reached out to potential customers:
www.division-m.com/drivebender/
www.stablebit.com/CloudDrive
www.smartftp.com/
These would be very good to offer Tardigrade integration.
I can reach out, thanks for the head up. If you have any direct connections over there, be sure to tell them about your experience with Tardigrade personally!!
Hello. I am sorry I do not have direct connections to them.
But these kind of products I think are a perfect match for Tardigrade.
Maybe they could even team up with Storj and sell Tardigrade cloud space through their products.
Likewise with https://www.msp360.com/
You can use their products if you use the S3 gateway but it would be much better if they integrated directly.
I also don’t have any connections with them other than being a customer.
Reach out to shodan.io.
According to their blog posting they are storing petabytes of data:
https://blog.shodan.io/happy-10-year-anniversary/
We own hundreds of servers storing Petabytes of data and have more than 3 million registered users.
They’ve seen a huge increase in traffic recently due to the AI self-hosting hype and are starting to hit the limits of their provider. From an end-user perspective, performance can get noticeably slow during peak times, especially when new models are released.
The AI boom has probably also given them a healthy budget to invest right now. I believe they’re currently hosted on AWS.
Also you could reach out to them.
Out of curiosity, do you have a link supporting this specific claim? I believe it would help.
Traffic increase: Look at the model sizes (150 gb - 5000 GB) and the number of downloads (couple of million for the top ones).
Speed: I encountered it myself. I sometimes can’t even get 100 Mbps anymore.
Right now, their servers are getting absolutely hammered again. Downloads keep stopping, and speeds are between 5–50 Mbps.
That’s because the new Qwen3.8-27B was released TODAY. It already has 50k downloads, at 30 GB each. That alone means 1.5 PB of traffic in less than 24 hours.
Indeed, makes sense that they would benefit from better egress.
Though, AWS is a “strategic partner and investor” of Huggingface. Not saying this blocks the idea altogether, but it may turn out that egress is effectively sponsored for Huggingface by AWS. I know that AWS gives pretty big discounts to just large customer even with no special relations, for example, it’s absolutely natural to get 30-50% discounts on EC2 this way. On top of that, look at their own pricing: their largest repository offer is 8 USD/TB/month for storage with included 8× egress—that’s less than they’d be paying Storj for the same.
If I were them, I’d probably turn their download client into a bittorrent client instead 
Curiously, AWS S3 used to offer bittorrent protocol for downloads. The API is still there, even if it is deprecated or killed for a long time anyway.
For updates distribution one case pops in mind: Steam. I don’t know if they host the games updates or act just as intermediary between the studious and gamers, but maybe worth checking.
Wikipedia is another big one.
It would be nice to have Steam on board, they likely don’t require SOC2, and the CDN model works pretty well.
They are likely an integrator, and every studio hosts using their own method, I don’t know for sure.
BTW:
Now that the old management is gone… Have they ever really done something to get SOC2 for global network? 
Yes, roughly around 70%. We need one or two years to finish it. These auditors are very stubborn.
And.. we need an additional money for that..
How much do you need to complete that?
How do I know?
I guess, more, than $1,000 and less than $4,000,000.
now after 2-3 days already 800k downloads → 24 PB traffic
Is anyone willing to do this on a commission basis? Please go out and convince these customers for us. In return we can pay a fair commission for that.