StorJ Select Requirements

Node Operators
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I got an answer

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I got an answer too asking for all that stuff. So it’s not possible for me. Why not put it in the requirements? It would safe me/us und you more time.

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I would share this feedback with the team. Seems they assumed, that if the company name is a required field it’s a self-explanatory, but well.

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Heh, half of IT in my country is self-employment. Almost all my peers at my workplace technically have a company. Tax reasons :person_shrugging:

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The thing is, technically, I would need to start a company as well. But the earnings are so small that it wouldn’t make any sense.

If I did, I could say that I meet most of the requirements on their website:

  • My server is in an enterprise facility with ISO 27001 certification.
  • I could provide around 200TB of disk space (though this is debatable).

However, certain requirements, like operating under my own ASN with a /22 IPv4 announcement, using multihomed bandwidth from at least two different transit providers, or owning all the hardware, including switching and routing, seem to be the most critical. These weren’t mentioned on the application form.
Nor was the requirement to have been in business for more than five years with paperwork attesting to that.
And as Alexey already pointed out, having a fully staffed 24/7 NOC is another big hurdle.

So, for a “normal person,” it is impossible to get into the Select network.

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I know some folks in a local data center and was thinking about a similar thing. The facility does not yet have any certifications/attestations… well, SOC2 is a rather unknown thing here, but there are similar programs. If they got one, I could probably partner with them to set up Storj Select nodes, with me bringing in software/hardware/know-how, them providing space, remote hands and certifications. This way we would piggyback on existing certifications with minimal further paperwork.

Though, Storj is too small for that yet. It maybe would start becoming a viable idea if we could fill up a full rack of hardware. 200 TB is a single 2U server?

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You can fit 12 HDDs into one 2U Server. I calculate with 18Tb HDDs as these are the best €/Tb here at the moment. You can fit 24TB HDDs in there and could get theoretically 288Tb into one 2U Server.

But they wrote me, that they are searching for people in the US, who can provide at least 1Pb. - But they may consider other regions too.

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Yep, exactly what I was thinking about.

2-3 PB of data would be the level where I would start thinking of engaging a data center explicitly (as opposed to just personally setting up a public network node in that data center).