Repair data up 5x Egress 3x Ingress from 17th Feb 2022

[BrightSilence]

The two things aren’t related. The increase in repair traffic is because the repair threshold has been increased as explained here.

Implications of the current Russia<->Ukraine crisis for Storj

We have done this modeling! In fact, if you’ve seen an increase in repair traffic over the last week, it’s because we bumped our repair thresholds to what a couple different models suggested during this unstable time. Suffice it to say, we are extremely confident the data is safe in a number of modeled geopolitical scenarios. We’re considering writing a more generic blog post about dealing with all sorts of instability and how we handle it, because I assume this is not the only time someone has …