What should a newbie understand about being a SNO?

  1. 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.
  2. Right now, due to the majority of traffic being tests, the traffic can go up and down sharply for no apparent reason. That usually doe not indicate a problem with your node.
  3. You have to make the node reliable as it starts getting full traffic after a month and full income after 10 months. If you do not believe that your hard drive can last at least a year - use RAID. You also have to monitor the node as it can be disqualified after 5 hours (or whatever the new number is) of downtime.
  4. Do not use SMR drives, unless using a large array of them with SSD cache.
  5. Setting up multiple nodes most likely will not get you more traffic.
  6. Nodes are not ranked by the amount of free space available - if your node has enough free space for the file, it has the same chance to get it as a node with 100TB free.
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