I can assure you that our sales and marketing teams are well aware of both the “competitors” you mentioned and have studied the features and pricing they offer, there is no need to name them on the forum repeatedly.
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Oh yes, I agree with that, I assumed we were still talking about posting links in the clear.
As a slight tangential, I also support the idea that in addition, the entire SNO section should not publicly accessible -- as someone brought up in the other thread; and it has nothing to do with transparency: Forum is just another marketing tool, and showing how the sausage made first thing to prospective customers is not helping anything.
It does not have to have a huge barrier to entry – even a clickthrough – “I"m a SNO” before granting access shall suffice, and letting search engines continue indexing the content is fine too.
Even though I understand how network works, and the concept of vocal minatory, sometimes reading some posts there gets me worried about my data for a second…
For the first time you want to be identified as SNO, it could require a node ID or the token obtained from site for the node.
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We do not want to hide our SNO section, because we are trying to be a transparent as much as possible. This is one of our values - we are opened for anyone.
I would be willing to donate some space as well. I have no idea how much though.
But it would be better than idling hard disks because there would be a chance that a Select customer will turn into a paying customer for the public/global network. And if they don’t use it nothing would be lost.
It wouldn’t happen unfortunately. They uses a Storj Select, because they have a special requirements, which cannot be covered by the Storj Global, no matter what benefits it has.
We always offer a Storj Global first, and offer a Storj Select only in the case when not all requirements can be covered by Storj Global, i.e. SOC2 Type II compliance or a specific city or even a specific DC.
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I understand what you are saying but I see this totally differently.
Yes, they may have compliance requirements, but my reasoning is this is not true for all of the data they have.
Some may required to be stored in SOC2 data centers, some may not.
And what do you lose if they have to store all of their data in SOC2 data centers? Meaning they cant store a single bit on public Storj? Right, you won’t lose a penny, because they would not be able to make use of that offer.
Did you ever work in such company? They apply own security rules to every external component they have used.
Then explain to me: What do you lose with such an offer, if they cannot use it anyway?
The more important question - what we gain? The answer is - nothing. So why do we need to spend resources to gain nothing?
I believe this would be an opportunity instead of slamming the door into their faces.
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The pricing on Storj Global is more attractive, so I wouldn’t say that these doors are closed. They may use it, if they can.
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The issue is not the pricing. The opportunity lies in the fact that they get something for free what they believe they don’t need. But as they have it, they will start to think what useful things could be done with it and if really all data has to be in SOC2 data centers. And there are no barriers tied to that process.
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