#storj — Public Fediverse posts

Further negative news about #STORJ. They have announced restructuring under chapter 11 bankruptcy.

https://www.storj.io/blog/storj-announces-voluntary-financial-restructuring-to-resolve-legacy-liabilities-and-position-the-business-for-growth

https://forum.storj.io/t/an-open-letter-to-the-storj-token-community-the-restructuring-the-network-and-a-proposed-path-to-shared-ownership/32068

#selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost #homelab

@Lioh It looks like the other shoe dropped. I can’t say I’m surprised—I’ve never had a great impression of the business plan for any number of these crypto-based businesses. #Storj https://www.storj.io/blog/an-open-letter-to-the-storj-token-community-the-restructuring-the-network-and-a-proposed-path-to-shared-ownership

RE: https://social.electrafish.tech/@electrafish/116682322224408153

For anyone still keeping track, #Storj has walked back its $50 monthly minimum halfway through the first month it was to take effect. It is going back to a $5 monthly minimum where it should have stayed.

Waaaaay too late to undo this. The STORJ project in distributed storage was so appealing and was working great before these missteps. I have deleted my data, my account, and closed down my hosted storage node. Fool me once... yadda yadda...

I move to #Backblaze B2 and will not be returning.

The website pricing details have not yet been updated, but see below.

Email sent to users here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/storj/comments/1uwe4n4/rolling_back_on_the_minimum/

Confirmed in forum post here:
https://forum.storj.io/t/important-update-upcoming-storj-customer-pricing-adjustments-and-sno-impact/31827/187

#homelab #selfhosted

@adam I have started using their service at USD 0.50/m. Shortly after, they changed to a minimum amount of USD 5/m which was already a controversial raise, and now it's USD 50/m? WTF? The sad thing is that they have introduced themselves as Fediverse friendly, even promoting their service to use with Pixelfed. Don't trust the new economy; they will always bite you in the back. #S3 #Storj

Wieder mal das HomeLab #Kubernetes aktualisiert mit #ClusterTool

Das ist glaube ich das erste mal, dass alle Pods laufen ohne Error-Status.

Schön wenn auch mal ausgemistet und aufgeräumt wird 😁

Den Bug in #Talos 1.13.3 hätte ich mir aber gerne gespart. Aber hey: Dadurch weiß ich jetzt wie man Talos Versionen downgraded und die Netzwerkkonfiguration manuell einspielt 🤣

Und das alles nur weil ich meine #VolSync Backups nach B2 schieben muss weil #StorJ jetzt mind. 50$ pro Monat von mir will.

The S3 Storage provider Storj has again increased it's pricing. I have started using it for 0.50 Cent/m, then they wanted a minimum Fee of USD 5/m, and now they are asking for a minimum monthly fee of USD 50 😱

#storj #sr

I said goodbye to #Storj yesterday, both for my own cloud storage needs and as a storage node operator.

I really liked Storj's original model which used distributed storage nodes to provide cloud storage services that don't rely on big corporate data centers. I hosted a 10TB node for the network which paid me $15-20 a month in STORJ tokens. I applied these directly to my own Storj cloud storage account which mostly covered my own 2-3TB cloud storage needs.

While it was touted as a low cost cloud storage solution when compared to #AWS, #Azure, and the like, I never really got that benefit. In addition to charging per TB-month of storage there was also a per segment cost that often doubled my monthly bill due to storing large numbers of files. But as long as my node payouts covered my storage bill it was a nice solution.

Over the last year Storj has made several changes, both to the amount node operators were paid (less) and to how much customers were charged (more). The change announced November 2025 was already going to push me out, since they instituted a minimum storage time requirement of 30 days, which didn't work for my daily rolling incremental backups from #Veeam. But the old price tier was grandfathered in until November 2026.

Yesterday they announced another price tier change which goes into effect **July 1, 2026** with no exceptions for current users. Even more infuriating was the **$50** per month minimum usage!! It was the nail in the coffin for me and I easily switched to #Backblaze B2 over night. Storj is no longer a viable service for home users.

Timeline:

Change to SNO payouts (April 2023)
https://forum.storj.io/t/announcement-changes-to-storj-node-payouts/22338

New pricing tiers (September 2025)
https://forum.storj.io/t/new-pricing-model-up-or-downgrade/30729

Storj acquired by Inveniam (October 2025)
https://www.storj.io/blog/storj-joins-inveniam-to-accelerate-innovation

Another pricing tiers change with $50/month minimum usage (June 2026)
https://www.storj.io/pricing/change-faqs

#homelab #selfhosted

I just got a mail from #storj where they announced that they will raise prices. The worst thing about this is their new minimum monthly price of $50 compared to the $5 before. This makes it pretty much useless as an offsite backup for me. They say the global supply shortages forced them. Now I have to migrate all my backups to a new service. For now it looks like that will be iDrive e2.

#sysadmin #homelab #backup

¿Os acordáis que volví como un miserable a #Storj con el rabo entre las piernas para mi copia de seguridad de #TrueNAS deslocalizada?
Ya os lo recuerdo.
He hecho pruebas recuperando servicios, y en efecto, todo bien. Así que desactivo las copias en Backblaze.
Dejaré algún tiempo las copias que hay allí, pero vamos que no tardaré en borrarlas.
A su vez, debido a que consumo poquísimo de Storj y me van a cobrar 5 dólares sí o sí, he metido una copia de TODO lo que hay en el NAS.

For the first time, I think one of my cats shut down my main #TrueNAS server. It runs VMs or apps for #Nextcloud, #Mastodon, #Storj, #Unifi, and #Wordpress. So that was neat! It was down from about 12-4pm today. After I noticed it was offline I found the curtain from the nearby window draped across the server. The power button is on top of the tower case. So I think a cat went to look out the window and walked across the power button! 😸❤️

#homelab #FOSS #FOSStodon

Today, they finally billed the the last bill. #storj didn't make it easy to delete the account.

You need to click on the delete account button, use the confirmation checkbox, enter your password, enter your MFA token and enter a code they sent to your email address.

Call me weird, but requiring that after making me delete all data and projects and pay all my bills, makes this step a quite overkill.

It only takes one ISP outage and I'm thinking about moving from #Nextcloud to #Apple with their advanced data protection encryption on iCloud.

Decentralized solutions like #Storj don't seem to be ready/fast. I want to store my libraries, have data backed up, accessible yet retain privacy.

As much as I don't want endless subscriptions again, simplicity may be king here. Thoughts?
#tech

A word about the deletion process of #storj that really bothered me.

1. Before you can delete your account, you have to delete all buckets.
2. To delete all buckets you have to delete all objects in these buckets
3. Object interactions are rate-limited and doesn't work great from the WebUI. After trying over and over again, I installed their CLI and had to delete one bucket with > 2 Mio objects for 3 days straight.

After almost a year I decided to drop #storj. Despite being officially partnered with TrueNAS, I wasn't really happy with it. They provided a good deal regarding storage pricing when I signed up last year, but Terms of Service changed through the year, they are still in this weird crypto business and have now been bought by an "AI" company.

They introduced a $5 minimum payment level when they changed their terms.

I switched to #scaleway with their glacier object storage for my backups.

Inveniam Capital Partners Acquires Storj to Advance Decentralized Data Infrastructure - Inveniam will integrate the company's decentralized cloud technology into its platform, w... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/22/inveniam-capital-partners-acquires-storj-to-advance-decentralized-data-infrastructure #inveniamcapitalmarkets #mergersandacquisitions #cloudcomputing #finance #storj #news

I filed a bug report for the #Storj v1.3.15 #TrueNAS app last night. This morning it was fixed and v1.13.16 deployed without issue. Impressive work!

#FOSS #homelab #fosstodon

My #dems and #libs, generally on the correct side of history. But my goodness there are so many topics that require nuance (#AI and #Crypto are examples) where you are just the knee-jerk opposition to anything #maga. First, be happy, very happy #magas are getting cleaned in the age of fraud. If you keep debt low and smart, you will be left standing. Second, find out what things like #FET and #Storj are, ask yourself what happens if silicon is disrupted? And the AI feint, don't get me started...

Trying out https://photosplus.app.

It is a bring-your-own-cloud #Mac, #iOS and #Android app for photo & video #backup. The apps are a little rough around the edges. For example, the menus and interactions are a bit weird.

But it does what it says on the tin. Keeping it around to see if this can help break dependency on Big Tech while also saving on storage costs.

I have tried both #Backblaze B2 and #Storj as storage backends on the app. So far Storj is much faster.

#PhotoPlus

Crypto-Backed Cloud-Storage Platform Storj Promotes Colby Winegar to CEO - Winegar previously served as the company's chief revenue office for a number of years. - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/30/crypto-backed-cloud-storage-platform-storj-promotes-colby-winegar-to-ceo/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #management #finance #hiring #storj #news #ceo #ai

Storj Acquires Cloud Computing Firm Valdi; Terms Undisclosed - Valdi allows customers to use available GPU compute cycles in data centers across the wor... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/07/09/storj-acquires-cloud-computing-firm-valdi-terms-undisclosed/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #mergersandacquisitions #cloudcomputing #finance #storj #news #gpus #ai

I started to have #Storj, #e2ee distributed cloud object storage, host my static website which has been served via #GitHub Pages. It feels like response is as quick and speedy as it has been, and so far I'm satisfied. I'll leave it for a while to see if it works as expected.

https://docs.storj.io/dcs/code/static-site-hosting

Ah yes, nothing makes me trust a storage provider more than quietly removing the free plan and holding the (previously uploaded) data hostage.
#storj #storj.io
I should have trusted my bad gut feeling when I found out storj was powered by a #crypto #blockchain.

Now I have to pay to download my data so I can set up a way to self-host my images for my website.
#selfhosting #s3