We removes expired trial accounts every time, they didn’t disappear to zero in any foreseeable future.
I meant the legacy ones with 150GB free space “forever”.
They should be gone at some point, no?
I think yes, maybe they already gone.
Thanks for clarifying this aspect!
An official info on the legacy accounts would be great.
For what? Why do you need this info?
I do not have any idea how to use that. SNOs are paid anyway, so what’s the point?
Because it is like a follow-up on what Storj had publicly announced with a possible effect on the SNOs’ earnings:
Given that growth has stalled despite Storj’s reported sales pipeline, I’m curious to know if this phase is still ongoing. Are you still removing free tier accounts at the same pace as new paid data is being added? Clarifying this would help explain the current growth situation. Moreover, it would be a significant milestone if Storj has successfully converted unpaid data into paid data of a similar size.
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November was a slow month. After today’s GC my avg real node growth the past 30 days is ~50GB, with ~3.5Mbps ingress per node.
The nodes estimation calculation practically gave me around the same value for October and November which was in the past always very close to what was actually paid.
Now I am seeing the same value as estimation for December. I don’t see signs of growth in this segment.
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I wonder if you are seeing an overall negative growth for the year?
Apr 30:
Oct 11:
Yeah the estimation is similar for me, which makes sense given the current traffic. Honestly as long as it doesn’t decrease too much I’m fine with it.
On my oldest node:
Apr 30: ~9.19TB
Oct 11: ~8.13TB
On another node:
Apr 30: ~3.07TB
Oct 11: ~3.93TB
You win some and you lose some I guess.
We had tons of organic ingress around this time last year for a couple of months, all we can do is just pray I guess.
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It’s just that we hear this:
But we see is this:
That’s when questions come up.
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Yes of course. If the current traffic is stale the the estimates show the same values for October, November and December.
But we also had now a year of hard work of Storj sales and participation in trade shows all around the world.
There should be achievements coming from that kind of activity.
While network statistics show that the amount of data stored today to 1 year ago are quite similar (26.4TiB then, 27.3TiB now), it is important to take into account that over 10TiB of legacy data has been removed.
So while the total data stored in the network may be similar, the amount of customer data has increased greatly.
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I don’t know where that number comes from but I am taking that into account. That’s why I was asking if this phase of removing those is still ongoing.
And it is a great achievement if thouse either got weed out or converted into paying account while the overall amount of stored data remained relatively stable.
But at some point this phase must be over and the mentioned sales pipeline should kick in.
This stat have missing data
The plan is to replace the stalled data with the active data from the paying customers.
See
So, even if an average usage is remain the same, it contains much more paid data than before (and continues to grow).
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Of course it does. The question is, is this still ongoing or have the free tier accounts successfully been removed.
It’s a permanent process, while we have a free trial.
There is no more free trial for the 150GB accounts.