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Seems really annoying to get setup with Sia though. You need to have at least 50,000 SC to begin hosting, and you can't earn SC until you start hosting. You eve

by xvolter 10y ago

Seems really annoying to get setup with Sia though. You need to have at least 50,000 SC to begin hosting, and you can't earn SC until you start hosting. You even need SC to announce your host (15 SC), and the apps don't explain if the software deals with dynamic IPs or if it supports hostnames instead of just IPv4 addresses. Also, it seems like it is only using IPv4 addresses, kind of short minded for modern technology. How are you even supposed to get started using Sia if there's no way to do it except to go and spend money. The point of being able to host files is that I'll offer up some storage on my NAS, earn coins, then be able to backup some of my own important documents on the network. Seems like if I have to dish out money to get started I doubt I'd ever be able to maintain the service without continuously spending money. So many other syncing technologies seem easier than this.

Taek 10y ago
Hostnames, IPv4, and IPv6 are all supported. Dynamic IP addresses are also supported, but they are generally a lot less reliable (the renter needs a way to discover that the host IP has changed, and often this discovery is late). http://siapulse.com/page/network http://siapulse.com/page/network has examples of hostnames, IPv4, and IPv6 addresses. Not all home connections are able to use IPv6, so if you don't see any it's probably a problem with your home setup. > You need to have at least 50,000 SC to begin hosting, and you can't earn SC until you start hosting. This is one of the ways that we address churn on the network. It's actually really bad for the network for a host to get started, be around storing files for a day or two, and then leave. If you are going to be a host on the Sia network, it's important that you are committed. > The point of being able to host files is that I'll offer up some storage on my NAS, earn coins, then be able to backup some of my own important documents on the network. Sia is not designed as a tit-for-tat network. The economics are supposed to work much like Bitcoin + Bitcoin mining. That is, you have a dedicated set of specialists who work hard to provide a high quality service at a very good price. If you are hosting, the goal is to make money, not to be able to afford to back up your own data. > So many other syncing technologies seem easier than this. Yes but none of them are offering storage at $1 / TB / Mo. But also, Sia is still an early product and we're still iterating heavily on both the core algorithms and on the user experience. Sia's core user market is people who are willing to pay for cloud storage. This would include businesses and enterprises. Sia's long term game is to offer a cloud storage platform that competes with the likes of Amazon S3 at less than 10% of the price, all while offering the security, privacy, decentralization, and open source codebase of a blockchain project.

by xvolter 10y ago

Taek 10y ago

Hostnames, IPv4, and IPv6 are all supported. Dynamic IP addresses are also supported, but they are generally a lot less reliable (the renter needs a way to discover that the host IP has changed, and often this discovery is late). http://siapulse.com/page/network http://siapulse.com/page/network has examples of hostnames, IPv4, and IPv6 addresses. Not all home connections are able to use IPv6, so if you don't see any it's probably a problem with your home setup. > You need to have at least 50,000 SC to begin hosting, and you can't earn SC until you start hosting. This is one of the ways that we address churn on the network. It's actually really bad for the network for a host to get started, be around storing files for a day or two, and then leave. If you are going to be a host on the Sia network, it's important that you are committed. > The point of being able to host files is that I'll offer up some storage on my NAS, earn coins, then be able to backup some of my own important documents on the network. Sia is not designed as a tit-for-tat network. The economics are supposed to work much like Bitcoin + Bitcoin mining. That is, you have a dedicated set of specialists who work hard to provide a high quality service at a very good price. If you are hosting, the goal is to make money, not to be able to afford to back up your own data. > So many other syncing technologies seem easier than this. Yes but none of them are offering storage at $1 / TB / Mo. But also, Sia is still an early product and we're still iterating heavily on both the core algorithms and on the user experience. Sia's core user market is people who are willing to pay for cloud storage. This would include businesses and enterprises. Sia's long term game is to offer a cloud storage platform that competes with the likes of Amazon S3 at less than 10% of the price, all while offering the security, privacy, decentralization, and open source codebase of a blockchain project.