Store 1 PB on Select network, get 100 TB free on Public network

[jammerdan]

@Alexey

I do not know , thus shared with the team in the very beginning.

Great. Hopefully you have shared the link to the Impossible cloud promo as well as I think it is always interesting to see what competitors are doing.
My whole idea is about the question how to get a customer who as chosen the Select network to try the Public network and eventually find out, that it suits him as well or even better. If not for all of his data, at least for data that he does not need compliance for.
Therefore there should be no hurdles like additional signup or cost associated to it. It should simply be ready to use with no entry barriers.

@cj667113

This is making the Select Network more attractive as they get an additional 10% storage free. Making the Select Network more attractive at the expense of SNOs is problematic.

The Public network has different characteristics than the Select network. It is not simply 10% more space. It is 10% different space they may even not be able to use, for example for data where compliance is required. For compliant data a customer must choose select, there is no choice no matter how cheap the Public network is.

@cj667113

what this allows the customers of Storj Select to have is a free testing environment.

This is what it is meant to be in way: They should test and see that the Public network has its own strengths compared to the Select network.

@cj667113

I would flip this argument, if they use that free space what is gained from a SNO perspective other than more disk wear?

I have answered that but I say it again.
First of all, again, it would be best if Storj would keep paying SNO for this space. They pay SNO for free trial space, so why not for such a campaign.
The gain lies in the way marketing works: You hope that a customer who initially opted against the Public network, will opt into it after he finds out, that it suits his data or parts of his data as well or even better than the Select network at lower cost.

By the way we had the idea/suggestion of a promo satellite in the past where SNOs could subscribe to to support Storj with marketing or great web projects with free storage:

Production readyness?

Funny, I have thought of something like that as well. I would not mind giving away some space for free. However implementation and aim must be discussed as it could lead to less usage of the paid service. However there are services which might be great to support for free like Wikipedia, webarchive, Wikileaks or Tor. For other services maybe bandwidth limit, less redundancy or shorter retention could be done.