I don’t look at it this way. If disk dies, I will replace it with another used drive, and I have plenty of money saved by not buying new disks in the first place. And so far every single used drive I bought was either resold or keeps spinning. None failed on my hands. (Can’t say the same about new drives. A lot of RMA happened withint first 3 months of disk life across vendors and brands. So i paid more for a privilege to pay postage to get refurb disk anyway. That’s why I stopped buying new )
Node is unaffected, it continues running on the same array that tolerates disk failure.
”Potentially not losing $30” is not a goal post that justifies lifting a finger (buying a fan, thinking about airline, etc). Does not even cover electricity.
I think it’s not important where the encrypted data stored in USA/EU/RUS/Zimbabwe/etc - the client get’s the best service from decentralized storage with tough competitors to make service fast and reliable.
As node operator I’m receiving the storj tokensnot a payments in some fiat currency as contribution for taking part in project. So I think it is incorrect to generalize these subjects. It’s not a “payments” i.e. “money” itself it’s just some commodity exchange one assets for another. We get some reward that not have concrete measure of cost for our resourses.
The main resourse is our time that we spent for learning, thinking, screwing with crashes etc. And it takes alot of time to keep the nodes online.
The other subject’s not have any value with time - there was alot episodes in World history when some goverments and regimes caused alot of bad media events. And now one of them.
As Bulgakoff once wrote: “Don’t read Soviet newspapers”.
I think we should need to extrapolate this though for all media content that goes from a both sides and think with our mind in any situation. Our ask yourself a question: who benefits from this?
If the management of STORJ project make a decision to toss the things in one pile then for me this project costs nothing.
I’m taking a part in STORJ since 2020. And I’m in Russia.
omg I didn’t realize that you bumped a year old thread and i was wondering why nodes dropped in 2024…
but it looks like the number of nodes have gone up
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
E
F
G
#
Country
Nodes ⏷
%ISP
Subnets
%ISP
Avg ?
1
Russia
3242
34
1771
28
1.8
2
Germany
3206
30
1799
26
1.8
3
United States
2980
52
1441
47
2.1
4
France
2379
10
1343
11
1.8
5
United Kingdom
1537
22
558
25
2.8
6
Spain
996
54
420
41
2.4
7
Canada
829
51
433
50
1.9
8
Netherlands
701
44
368
37
1.9
9
Ukraine
658
60
386
59
1.7
10
Australia
547
16
103
47
5.3
and any way for your question… yeah, what a SNO wants is high demand for storage, that’s really gotta be the key driver. How much of a slice of the pie they get is going to depend on both node count and node size.
Why is the US so comparatively low in node counts? It has 50x the population of Denmark… but only 10x the nodes? And its satellite handles the most paid traffic… but the majority of SNOs are on the other side of the Atlantic?
I don’t know. It seems very low. HGPlays probably runs his share of nodes as well, and I’ve set up nodes for my friends as well. I find it hard to believe that good old th3van, me, and a handful of other players hold half the danish nodes
probably coz costs of living, and almost no one want to do charity to a tech company Ppl sold what they had to pay rents, no home servers left for storj
It’s very possible. Just looked up the IP blocks I use - they all register as Danish through IP Address Lookup | Geolocation, but get no country assigned from Sanctions.
I suspect this could be because they’re not in a sanctioned country, alas no information
You need to check both - the owner’s country and the registration country. Sometimes IP can be registered under one country, but the owner would be from another country as well.
Ppl sold what they had to pay rents, no home servers left for storj 