Looks like all the Presearch node issues are solved. At least on my end all 3 nodes have been up without problems
@scott would it be possible for the team to re-visit pricing for the nodes? It might not seem like much but $2 per month per node is $24/year. If you have several nodes, say 10, then we are talking $240/year.
Racknerd has an almost never ending promotion for $10/year for a KVM capable of hosting Pre nodes. That is half the price of what we are charging.
https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/
This is only my opinion and some may disagree, but I would suggest more agrresive pricing to get better market penetration. At least at the beginning. Preseach is only one type of node. There are several others that might be worth the effort to add to the playground if pricing is competitive. Incognito nodes come to mind for example
I run sevral of these and although token price is down, like TFT and like many others, the nodes are pretty profitable.
If pricing is competitive, and we get some marketing going by simply suggesting to some of the youtubers running nodes to try out Threefold, it could give a much needed boost to our token price.
These two dudes for example might be worth approaching to run some nodes on our grid and if they do a vid on deployments we could see some demand. But pricing has to be competitive.
There are over 72,000 nodes in operation. https://network.presearch.com/ If we can host them at say 70 cents per month, and we get 10% of the market, there would be about 5K revenue per month (7200 x 0.7). And that’s from preseach alone.
It doesent make sense to have a decentralized search engine running in data centers owned by Satan or some fake Web3 like Flux. These nodes should be hosted in a decentralized network like Threefold.
