Current segment fee at $0.0000088/segment/m is too high for using Storj as S3+CDN service.
For 1TB files that fits perfectly within the 64MB segment, the segment fee will be 110241024/64*0.0000088=$0.144, which will equal to a $4.144/m fixed storage price. Still fine.
However, as per Akamai data, average object size for CDN is usually lower than 1MB. If average object size is 1M, the fixed storage price on Storj will be 4+110241024*0.0000088=$13.23, which is near CloudFlare R2 price of $15/TB/m, plus they don’t charge for egress.
Higher segmentation fees limit Storj to basically a backup service only. And for cold data backup, Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive offers a much lower price at $0.99/TB/m.
I see what you’re saying… but there’s a giant expanse of use-cases between your examples. Like Deep Archive is cheap… but to restore you give them a kidney and your first child… then they send a sherpa to the summit of the highest peak to retrieve an LTO with your name on it… and when they get back from their voyage-of-discovery… your data is copied back online for you… eventually .
But it is interesting Storj is trying some marketing that compares to CDN interactivity. Maybe they’re OK with matching their pricing… because they think customers will see great value by adding all the S3 features on top?
The Media-and-Entertainment ads are better: those guys sling large files around all day!
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