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Sia [1] could be even cheaper, coming out at $1.10 for a TB [2]. Although this price might not be forever, and I'm still not sure about the reliability. In the

Sia [1] could be even cheaper, coming out at $1.10 for a TB [2]. Although this price might not be forever, and I'm still not sure about the reliability. In theory it should be more reliable, as it's decentralised and your data gets split among multiple servers around the world. The question remains what if the Sia network itself stops being profitable and people all exit at the same time. Although the same could be said for Amazon? Sia will actually soon be adding a backend to Minio too [3]. The only thing that has stopped me using Sia is you have to have the blockchain running on the machine. 1. https://sia.tech https://sia.tech 2. https://siastats.info/storage_pricing https://siastats.info/storage_pricing 3. https://blog.sia.tech/introducing-s3-style-file-sharing-for-sia-through-the-new-minio-integration-bb880af2366a https://blog.sia.tech/introducing-s3-style-file-sharing-for-...

cyberferret 9y ago
Curious as to why you edited your post to remove mention of the other service that you had listed originally?
- turblety 9y ago
  Sorry @cyberferret. I previously listed Storj [1] but did a bit of research and it didn't actually look cheaper when you consider bandwidth cost. $0.015 per GB per month $0.05 per GB downloaded [1] https://storj.io/ https://storj.io/
  - cyberferret 9y ago
    Cool thanks! I presumed that it didn't meet some sort of criteria that was being discussed here. I just wanted to make sure there were no issues with the service itself per se.
    - digianarchist 9y ago
      They're in closed BETA. I looked into them but they are not that good for long term storage. Plus their payment system is centralized.
opportune 9y ago
I started getting excited about Sia over the summer. They've updated now, but they used to have an exceedingly ambitious project roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-feature-roadmap https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-feature-roadmap. Checking back a few months later made me lose confidence in the project, even though I think it's a really cool idea. I see it being used as a base layer for a Glacier type of product, which is still useful because it might give everyone a cheap-ish way to store media, but I wish it could be something more. As far as I know, there's no way to coordinate the sharing geographically, and furthermore the bandwidth is pretty bad, which I think might be due to bandwidth not being counted in the pricing models? There would be huge money in creating a blockchain like Sia that created a more granular marketplace for distributing shards and that factored geography/bandwidth into the pricing. The killer app for this technology is a public market for servers (specifically media hosting). Imagine if Netflix could continually shift their distribution platforms around the world as offices emptied and people turned off their PCs

cyberferret 9y ago

Curious as to why you edited your post to remove mention of the other service that you had listed originally?

turblety 9y ago
Sorry @cyberferret. I previously listed Storj [1] but did a bit of research and it didn't actually look cheaper when you consider bandwidth cost. $0.015 per GB per month $0.05 per GB downloaded [1] https://storj.io/ https://storj.io/
- cyberferret 9y ago
  Cool thanks! I presumed that it didn't meet some sort of criteria that was being discussed here. I just wanted to make sure there were no issues with the service itself per se.
  - digianarchist 9y ago
    They're in closed BETA. I looked into them but they are not that good for long term storage. Plus their payment system is centralized.

opportune 9y ago

I started getting excited about Sia over the summer. They've updated now, but they used to have an exceedingly ambitious project roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-feature-roadmap https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-feature-roadmap. Checking back a few months later made me lose confidence in the project, even though I think it's a really cool idea. I see it being used as a base layer for a Glacier type of product, which is still useful because it might give everyone a cheap-ish way to store media, but I wish it could be something more. As far as I know, there's no way to coordinate the sharing geographically, and furthermore the bandwidth is pretty bad, which I think might be due to bandwidth not being counted in the pricing models? There would be huge money in creating a blockchain like Sia that created a more granular marketplace for distributing shards and that factored geography/bandwidth into the pricing. The killer app for this technology is a public market for servers (specifically media hosting). Imagine if Netflix could continually shift their distribution platforms around the world as offices emptied and people turned off their PCs