I’m putting together a short presentation about becoming a storage node operator. What would you tell yourself if you were a newbie? (not necessarily new to tech, just if you were new to being a SNO) thanks!

Based on what I’ve found and read through on the forums, the biggest things would be making sure that knowing where to get information about the major troubleshooting steps are. The majority of support posts are around fixing the more common of the sqlite issues as well as basic log analysis to find…

It’s not mining. Having 100TB server and 10G uplink will not result in the server being full ($150/month) and link being saturated with you getting 3PB ($6000) upload per month. Right now, due to the majority of traffic being tests, the traffic can go up and down sharply for no apparent reason. Tha…

First of all - if you start a node - it must work 24/7/365, so SNO must take care of it and remember that in one way or another it must pay for it. And whether its hardware and operating system is reliable enough to allow it. And by the way - what the abbreviations SN, SNO, etc. it would also be g…

I would start with setting expectations at a high level. Yes you can make income by participating in the ecosystem as a node operator, but the expectation is that your node will be highly available (offline for no more than 5 hours per month). This means working out stability on your equipment and n…

I’d say by far the most important part is having the right expectations around payment. Many new SNOs are currently surprised about low payments in the first few months. So it’s important to explain the vetting process, the held amount percentages as well as the time it will take to fill up the spac…

RAID are complicated enterprise class solutions and often tailored to specific needs, Want to try to run a storagenode then just put one node on a drive / partition and go from there… however storagenodes are quite demanding, so don’t expect perfect numbers on running one disk pr node. anything les…

Pretty much in agreement with what’s been written so far… I would add a little bit about: Basics of Ethereum addresses Recommend signing up for an Etherscan account for email alerts when payments come in SNOs getting paid in USD valuation at the time the transaction occurs I would also add this g…

[image] anon27637763: Have an option to receive up to $1.00 of the first month payout in ETH to the SNO address for the first month only. The high risk of abusing. I would like to extend it to at least three months

How about the first $1 earned by the node is paid out as ETH, with the other payments being with the regular STORJ tokens? You can also limit it to once per node and address. The SNO has earned that money anyway, so I do not really see the risk of abuse. OK, someone will keep creating new nodes on …

[image] Pentium100: How about the first $1 earned by the node is paid out as ETH, I’m in agreement with @Alexey on waiting for month 3 to add an option for a small amount of ETH. The reason I think it’s important to have that option is… of course… to facilitate moving STORJ tokens around wit…

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