@alpharabbit is partially correct, this is one network, it even uses the same satellites. It has a separate edge services though and nodes on Select is configured to join only one satellite and have a special tags in the databases. Repair workers and auditors are different too.
So, it’s the same network, because theoretically you can move data from Storj Select to Storj Global and vice versa with a special repair workers, but it would be costly. However, I think it’s possible. Or use rclone sync between two remotes (now it would be costly for the customer).
For the customer it’s the same network. If the customer need some Select bucket and other on the Storj Global, they can do so. They do not need to change anything if they would use a Storj native protocol. For S3, well, the edge services have different endpoints. I’m not sure that it’s possible to use a Storj Global edge endpoints to upload to the Storj Select bucket. But should be possible to use a Storj Select edge services to access Storj Global.
That’s my original question. Anyways I would love Storj sharing some info about it. Maybe the Storagenode version for Storj select has nothing to do with the one used in the public network.
That’s not correct. At the moment, there are select nodes only in the US. Nothing to do with “geo restrictions”.
The software is the same. The version may differ, they may have more recent version running, but it’s still Open Source and available on our GitHub. Just note that not all nodes can be accepted by a production satellites, because they may have the developers defaults.
That’s incorrect too. We have a Select nodes also in EU and AU. Perhaps in Japan and/or Singapore too (but I’m not sure about last ones). First of all the Select nodes used exactly for geofence when they cannot use a Storj Global with a geofence for some specific reason and/or SOC2 requirements, or very strict geofence (up to city).
And we can extend if there are demands in specific locations.
Is also incorrect that all the storj select nodes under the tier “us-select-1” are located in the US?
Are there another tiers of storj select nodes active at the moment?
Idle Storj Select nodes receive any income?
Maybe i could rephrase it with “At the moment, there are active select nodes only in the US. Nothing to do with “geo restrictions”.”
Might be a matter of the specific agreement, it was however mentioned Select nodes are getting paid for reserved capacity, not by what of it is being actually used.
I do not think so. They must be locked to US.
yes?
no. There are a lot of nodes in the Select, still much less than in a Storj Global. However, they are spin up on a strongly demand of: either a US geolocation AND strongly requirement of SOC2. Otherwise the Storj Global is much more reliable and faster, especially if they need a global access. Ok, the Storj Global is not SOC2 certified yet, but it has much more confidence than ANY centralized cloud solution.
Os there any update yet, wether StorJ global will get soc2 certification or how far you are with it?
It looks like it is out now:
On one hand it is nice that they finally moved over to Storj.
On the other hand given their history, very sad that they suddenly believe they need to store their data in SOC2 datacenters.
I wouldn’t expect anything new on this for several months. When there is news to share on it, we will let you know. There are a number of SOC2 auditor tasks being done and the discussions on the Public side are just one of many of those. It is going to take some time.
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Wow, I wasn’t wrong! Hello again everyone. Sadly, it seems like my disk usage has remained the same or gone down in the past three months. The payouts are still about twice the cost of electricity, so for now I don’t have to worry about that.