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I would like to see some numbers on this, especially expected link availability. When the sky is clear I believe they can get awesome speeds, but in strong winds, clouds, storms it is going to be unstable. Laser wireless links are around many years and there is a reason why they are not widely used.
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Should this thread be updated, farming is no longer the correct term? to be honest I donāt remember what the new term is.
Anyhow, I am looking at a purchase of some hardware for the sole purpose of nodes from home and am wondering, anyone at Maidsafe:
My last node held 2048 records at roughly 500 Megabytes, is it safe/reasonable to assume that this is an accurate estimate to use in calculating storage requirements?
Edit: Storage provider?
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My feels are that it will be mine nodes up to 20Gb but allowing many nodes per computer. I am not sure how that pans out to service provider area yet as we need to do some measurements with QUIC (please let that be soon). My suspicion is that 200 nodes per computer should be easily achieved. So 200 * 20Gb == ~500Gb~ 4TB per computer (so not huge) [ thanks @happybeing] . Then folk can have many computers. I donāt expect cpu or mem to be that much of an issue. So a basic 500Gb instance should be good
Of course caveat emptor here, it could change, but I donāt think it will too much
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Confused by Scottish maths here, Stephen Hawkingās last theory is childās play next to this. 
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hops, to many messages in parallel 
I was gonna come up woith a mod arithmetic excuse, but I think I will edit it 
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Lol, weāve gone from what looked like a simple error to a wave function. 
Still, he hasnāt messed with the speed of light yet
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Thanks David,
Looking at DO few droplets have 4TB storage and those that do are high end starting at ~$1300 per month so getting a small droplet and adding 2000GB storage seems the cheapest option on DO.
$200 per month for ~2TB (~$400 per month for 4TB, not immediately obvious that adding two is possible)
Granted you are talking about what should be possible.
Can anyone poke a hole in my balloon there please?
If not, nodes from home are the way!
Edit: Unless of course a 4TB setup on DO is expected to bring in at least $450 per month, is it? thinking out loud here to be correctedā¦ anyone chime in and fix my logic.
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After looking at cloud storage costs goto say Iām thinking about geting the beefiest fiber connection I can get for home and building an overpowered super NAS
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So you donāt see a huge hole in my ponderingās up above?
I just got 80 x 4 core 4GB ram machines on auction, I may just become the first large scale safe miner/farmer/storage_provider in existence luckily my neighborhood recently got a 5 gig fiber upgrade 
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I reached the same conclusion as you after looking for 5tb storage at Oracle was quite sobering pricing up what I wanted
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You just need 80 friends to host your little machines for you and you will be at the top of your own pyramid scheme
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All I need is 80 4TB drives 
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Offt price up 80 4tb droplets and then the price on newegg will look cheep
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Best I can get is 900M/bs fiber available from September so looks like Iāll be investing in some of that
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What are they scalping you for that?
Ā£40 per month
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Not terrible really.
Same as what Iām paying for the 50M/bs that Iāve got now. So looks very reasonable.
Itās not working yet but they have been busy digging up all the streats in the area putting the fiber in all summer
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You can go to places like lowendtalk.com and find VPS deals. I have a couple multi TB servers I donāt pay much for.
I am not in any way affiliated with the following company, but I do have some of their servers I found on the above site, as well as some with some other companies. This is just an example of VPS deals you can find on the site if you are looking.
https://servarica.com/all-offers/
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