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Storj
Company blog · storj.io/blog · on HN as jtoldssystemsprogramming
Storj is the company blog at storj.io, writing about systems and programming. Since 2014, 99 different Hacker News readers have linked it 131 times, most often “Decentralized, end-to-end encrypted Cloud Storage”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly link storj.io as a decentralized, S3-compatible alternative for file storage and compare its pricing with other providers. The blog posts cited cover cloud storage costs and economic empowerment.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says to check out a Storj blog post on economic empowerment.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
No syncing. No downloading. Just better cloud storage with local performance at 80% lower cost.
Most-linked posts?
- Decentralized, end-to-end encrypted Cloud Storage21 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2016-03-20
- Storj – Decentralized Storage10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2014-04-11
- Decentralized data storage has finally landed8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-04-20
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-15
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-06-08
- Storm: A Peer-To-Peer Cloud Storage Network [pdf]4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-15
- /node4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-12-01
- /pricing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-20
- DRPC: Our Replacement for gRPC3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-27
- A Tale of Two Copies2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-10
What Hacker News says?
Like http://storj.io/ ? I think they have a lot of code to write though.
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on “GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub”Submitted Storj – Blockchain-based decentralized storage network as a story · 71 points
HN discussionDepending on how much you access per month, Storj DCS[0] and Wasabi[1] can also be interesting choices. - Storj has the lowest cost per TB, but charges for egress - Wasabi doesn't charge for egress, but has a fair use policy where if you egress more than you store they can kick you off their platform[2] - Wasabi is also a better fit only if you plan to keep your files around for 90+ days (they have a minimum object…
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on “We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400”Submitted A Tale of Two Copies as a story · 59 points
HN discussionLet’s try to get it running on a decentralized network. https://storj.io/
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on “Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support”Submitted Decentralized data storage has finally landed as a story · 38 points
HN discussionStorj Labs | Sr. Software Engineer, Senior Technical Writer, UX Survey Panelists | Atlanta, GA. Salt Lake City, UT| Full-time | REMOTE * Technical Writer: Salt Lake City or Atlanta * Senior Software Engineer, backend: Alanta * Sr. Technical Writer: SLC Also seeking * Engineers to answer survey questions about their usage of cloud object storage. https://atikhbana.typeform.com/to/iKVvGB (not a full-time job, just me…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Decentralized, end-to-end encrypted Cloud Storage as a story · 38 points
HN discussionI think Storj may have some similarities. http://storj.io/
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on “Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers”Submitted Storj Crowdsale as a story · 37 points
HN discussionStorj has spent the last year rebuilding the entire network after hiring JT Olio (Director of Engineering) Ben Golub (Interim CEO, previously CEO of Docker). The V3 Network is leaps and bounds more performant and economical than the V2 Network. It is compatible with the S3 bucket-object store and is an easy shift for applications already using S3 as an object store layer. You can speed test it vs S3 using the ./cmd/…
Comment linking /blog/2019/01/getting-started-with-the-storj-v3-test-network-storj-sdk/
on “AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source”Submitted Storj releases 90 page v3 white paper as a story · 36 points
HN discussion>voting https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1043.pdf Also, https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/375.pdf Section 4.4.2 >storage https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf https://storj.io/storj.pdf ^ Detailed analyses that explain why blockchain is an appropriate solution But please do elaborate how they are "known to be worse." By whom and can you cite the analysis that proved so? Certainly not known by Google if they invested in a blockcha…
Comment linking /storj.pdf
on “Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality”Submitted Choosing CockroachDB for Horizontal Scalability as a story · 29 points
HN discussionFilecoin doesn't have any smart contracts as far as I'm aware, so it's limited to use as a decentralized storage network. I believe it would be possible to build something very similar to Filecoin on the Ethereum platform. Storj ( https://storj.io/ ) may be trying to do that.
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on “Learn Ethereum smart contract programming”Submitted Open Source Revenue Models in the Cloud Era as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIt seems that at least on Sia's plans, you can maximally host 20TB for 80$/month, not even a tenth of a monthly common crawl. Of course Sia's Skynet are package deals right now and I guess they're currently bootstrapping the network with users. Filecoin has no operational storage yet. Storj quotes 10$/Terabyte/month [1] so that will come out expensive. 1. https://www.storj.io/blog/2019/11/announcing-pioneer-2-and-t.…
Comment linking /blog/2019/11/announcing-pioneer-2-and-tardigrade.io-pricing/
on “Common Crawl”Submitted Storj launches program for open source companies to earn revenue in the cloud as a story · 12 points
HN discussionYou could try out one of these new storage cryptocurrencies: https://www.storj.io http://sia.tech/ https://filecoin.io/ https://maidsafe.net/ I haven't used them myself so I can't vouch for the UX or quality, but they should be able to offer pretty low prices.
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on “Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan”Submitted DRPC: Our Replacement for gRPC as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI've been thinking that a p2p backup solution (encrypted storage, storage cryptocurrency, occasional random requests to make sure they're still around) would work. I guess these guys: https://storj.io/ . $15/TB of storage, $50/TB of bandwidth. and competitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13723722
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on “Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan”Submitted Lensm, a Tool for Viewing Disassembly as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHow much storj you wanna bet that Gordon Hall guy is the only person in the world who understands the entirety of Storj? Scary. What relation does he have with the project? He's not even listed on the team: https://storj.io/team.html There was a $30MM ICO which ended May 25th. The price of ETH was $177 at the time. Not bad! Dropbox’ first seed round was only $15,000. I don't get it. Don't understand why people want…
Comment linking /team.html
on “Storj: Not a Dropbox Killer”Submitted DRPC, a Replacement for gRPC as a story · 8 points
HN discussionStorj ( http://storj.io/ ) is an interesting decentralized approach to this problem too.
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on “IPFS Pics”Submitted DRPC: Our Replacement for gRPC as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI've written and shipped numerous sites using Zappa for Python which makes deploying on Lambda/API gateway very simple. https://www.storjdash.com is entirely Lambda based (sorry for no real home page....you can read about StorJ at https://storj.io/ )
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on “Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?”Submitted Hot Rodding Decentralized Storage Part 1 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionStorage, [yes]( https://storj.io/ ). Computation ... sure if you don't mind the server viewing the contents of your computation and can verify the results. Sadly, fully homomorphic systems incur waaaay too much overhead so you are constrained in what you can do (i.e. specialized DBs, zkSNARKs, etc). Then, of course, there is the problem of network latency and bandwidth costs vs just keeping it all on one datacenter.
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on “Should I buy ECC memory? (2015)”Submitted Show HN: Automatically Store Your Tesla Videos on the Decentralized Cloud as a story · 7 points
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