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  Lost Collateral metric
  

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  @fulgored here,a sample of my hostdb.log :

  2018/02/14 06:53:25.268392 storageobligations.go:574: Missed storage proof. Revenue would have been 1000000000000000000000000.
  2018/02/14 07:59:52.677627 storageobligations.go:574: Missed storage proof. Revenue would have been 1000000000000000000000000.
  2018/02/14 10:40:29.585312 storageobligations.go:574: Missed storage proof. Revenue would have been 1000000000000000000000000.
  2018/02/14 20:06:07.382028 storageobligations.go:574: Missed storage proof. Revenue would have been 1000000000000000000000000.
  2018/02/15 05:11:07.760056 storageobligations.go:574: Missed storage proof. Revenue would have been 1000000000000000000000000.

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  Siad sending large amount of data through network
  

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  Hi,

  after reading this post I've checked the network usage on my sia host. And there was a huge increase of traffic sent on port 9881 starting at the beginning of the month. At the 14th I've limited the traffic sent from port 9881 to 1Mbit/s.

  Are these allnew hosts downloading the blockchain? Or could this be some type of DOS/Flood-attack using SIA gateways?

  day rx | tx | total | avg. rate ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- 18/01/18 7.38 GiB | 17.32 GiB | 24.70 GiB | 2.40 Mbit/s 19/01/18 5.11 GiB | 13.32 GiB | 18.42 GiB | 1.79 Mbit/s 20/01/18 15.49 GiB | 13.29 GiB | 28.78 GiB | 2.79 Mbit/s 21/01/18 16.32 GiB | 16.06 GiB | 32.38 GiB | 3.14 Mbit/s 22/01/18 8.98 GiB | 15.67 GiB | 24.65 GiB | 2.39 Mbit/s 23/01/18 13.69 GiB | 12.87 GiB | 26.56 GiB | 2.58 Mbit/s 24/01/18 11.51 GiB | 16.77 GiB | 28.28 GiB | 2.75 Mbit/s 25/01/18 12.26 GiB | 16.22 GiB | 28.48 GiB | 2.76 Mbit/s 26/01/18 19.38 GiB | 13.00 GiB | 32.38 GiB | 3.14 Mbit/s 27/01/18 10.87 GiB | 11.90 GiB | 22.77 GiB | 2.21 Mbit/s 28/01/18 19.43 GiB | 13.87 GiB | 33.30 GiB | 3.23 Mbit/s 29/01/18 24.47 GiB | 12.43 GiB | 36.91 GiB | 3.58 Mbit/s 30/01/18 22.10 GiB | 10.99 GiB | 33.09 GiB | 3.21 Mbit/s 31/01/18 15.05 GiB | 9.49 GiB | 24.55 GiB | 2.38 Mbit/s 01/02/18 24.83 GiB | 18.76 GiB | 43.60 GiB | 4.23 Mbit/s 02/02/18 26.18 GiB | 39.31 GiB | 65.49 GiB | 6.36 Mbit/s 03/02/18 19.95 GiB | 72.68 GiB | 92.63 GiB | 8.99 Mbit/s 04/02/18 28.06 GiB | 88.23 GiB | 116.28 GiB | 11.29 Mbit/s 05/02/18 18.03 GiB | 121.09 GiB | 139.12 GiB | 13.51 Mbit/s 06/02/18 33.23 GiB | 117.27 GiB | 150.51 GiB | 14.61 Mbit/s 07/02/18 22.44 GiB | 166.75 GiB | 189.19 GiB | 18.37 Mbit/s 08/02/18 40.38 GiB | 149.73 GiB | 190.11 GiB | 18.46 Mbit/s 09/02/18 21.82 GiB | 181.87 GiB | 203.68 GiB | 19.78 Mbit/s 10/02/18 17.12 GiB | 165.10 GiB | 182.22 GiB | 17.69 Mbit/s 11/02/18 27.54 GiB | 201.59 GiB | 229.14 GiB | 22.25 Mbit/s 12/02/18 39.42 GiB | 198.36 GiB | 237.78 GiB | 23.09 Mbit/s 13/02/18 27.81 GiB | 261.19 GiB | 289.00 GiB | 28.06 Mbit/s 14/02/18 49.46 GiB | 179.41 GiB | 228.88 GiB | 22.22 Mbit/s 15/02/18 40.48 GiB | 19.08 GiB | 59.56 GiB | 5.78 Mbit/s 16/02/18 18.48 GiB | 10.23 GiB | 28.72 GiB | 4.25 Mbit/s ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- estimated 28.22 GiB | 15.62 GiB | 43.85 GiB |
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  What to do ? Its not my fault
  

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  10 Days online, bad uptimes, "Host inactive" - help needed
  

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  Thanks for the hint with the port. That's fixed now.

  And yes the the address is announced fine. See here: https://siahub.info/host/9959

  I am seeing an increase of uptime during the last days, but still no contracts.

  Do you have any other advice?

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  consensus.db
  

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  Running your business with absolutely no control ?
  

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  @lasat

  Yes, I agree and I noticed the same behaviors in Windows 10 Pro where I am hosting. As soon as I added a folder to be used by SiaUI, it blocked 2.6 (all which I configured SIa to Use).

  Windows stated showing that the S:\ is now very less remaining. Agree. Thanks that that S:\ was coming from NAS LUN. So NAS admin console was actually showing me that my LUN is still having 2.6 TB of space remaing, all most the whole of the LUN. Being a .net developer earlier in my life and now as a Solution Architect, I fully accepted and agreed this design.

  This was the situation for the first 15 days or so. Windows S:\ was showing that the drive is almost full (per SiaUI design) and at the same time NAS admin console was showing that its almost empty. So far good.

  BUT , after 15+ days, for continues 24+ hours, I saw that my Windows (SiaUI took 5 GB of RAM) was writing (the process who was writing to NAS LUN = System and 10 threads of SiaUI was running with total of 5 GB memory consumpiton) to my NAS LUN with 9 MB/S. My NAS LUN (which is actually S:\ on windows) is almost full. So my questions, who wrote this much data ?

  Being a purely technical guy, I am not able to digest this. I have only two options - SiaUI team must answer me to help me my original questions or in next few week, I would shut down my space shared. Running a business in loss is one thing for tech gusy, but not getting proper help from SiaTeam is another thing.

  Exactly what should be my next move (without losing 45 siacoin which is expected)?

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  Error Resizing Folder
  

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  Are these deductions normal?
  

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  @Tsyko Yes, collateral is returned to you if you successfully fulfill a contract.

  However, it doesn't show up as a positive transaction in your wallet. I've now been running Sia long enough that I've had 6+ contracts finish. I see my wallet balance go up when it does, and host -v shows earnings, but I am unable to figure out how to keep my own ledger of all wallet incomings to make sure that everything balances correctly. And psychologically, I think it would be good for the Sia interface to show positive actions against one's wallet.

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  Help me to understand Debits of SC
  

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  Thanks

  Yes. I got 800 GB last week of data downloaded to my LUN. This is probably because I kept my pricing very low, when I started my first SiaHost. People grabbed this opportunity very fast ! Also probably because (may not be true, just giving credit to my effort) people went to my site and believed what my plan is. I am going to increase my price to much higher rate now once SiaUI finishes downloading data. IT doesn't allow any change in the price while downloading renter data.

  Every thing came back to normal after I restarted the SiaUI (once Sia UI was ideal for more than an hour).

  Starting 30 hours before, right from writing this post, I see that SiaUI is again writing data to my LUN. I am monitoring my Sinology's LUN even hour. So far my 2.6 TB of hosted space, 1.5 TB has be consumed and at the time of writing this response, SiaUI is stilling saving data to my NAs/LUN at ~10 MB/S

  I am noticing the same patter again. SiaUI started with around 300 MB of RAM consumption when It started downloading the renters' data. As of now, it is still downloading and it has currently consumed 4.5 GB (giga byte) of RAM.

  I am running Windows 10 Pro with 8 GB of RAM. No VM.

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  When SIA-UI is set up ( via NAS) you can put your laptop offline?
  

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  @Pilske

  Baiscally - No

  But if you have a high qulity Enterprise grade NAS, there will be possiblitly that you will be able to run the SiaUI directly on the NAS too.

  In that case, you will be able to turn youf Laptop for good.

  There was a really goood blog on "How to run SiaUI on a NAS". Just search that blog on the internet. I could not run thsame on my NAS becure my nas is SMB (small medium business) grade NAS.

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  New on SIA-UI
  

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  Good.
  It on your own now. :)
  But be careful, due to the several architecutral restrictions of the SiaUI App. once you setup the server in your system (all the physical components you will be using), you are done.

  Any thing you are building, keep a prime factor in the mind, you will be using the same system as prod. Don't do any mistake which you can't further change.

  There are several things I did not took care while begining and now I can't change.

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  First revenue reported.
  

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  @reinisp What is the command which resulted the first screen, please ?

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  Hosting errors
  

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  I've the come to the same conclusion...
  Hosting cannot pay for even the electricity in most cases.
  The reason is low demand for storage (cuirrently 2-3% utilization)
  But also bear in mind SIA is great project that has actually delivered funtionality to the space at a scale most other crypto based projects have not managed to .
  But it takes time - SIA must work on having in the demand for storage shifted massivly upwards in order to make any viable buisness caes for any profitable storage provider.
  I look at it this way; I want to follow the space and the development, I participate in the communicty and learn a lot. I happned to buy the coin when it was dead cheap so so far that is my only profit.
  Stay tuned, SIA will be a great success .- you just need to let it mature

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  System reboot broke hosting?
  

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  I've experienced a bit of the same. SIA hosting client is very vulnerable and keeps track of its links to your files via a set of JASON files.
  The Seed will not restore your contracts - you would have to back up the Json files - please search for that in the forum - tjhere is quite some dialog on it.
  The seed will recover any funds in your wallet.

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  Host not showing in SiaHub Map
  

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  It may take a few days for your ip to appear.

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  incoming RPCFormContract failed: contract verification failed: rejected for a window that starts too soon
  

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  Best way to invest 10k on hosting storage. What equipment would give me most bang for my buck and ease of use for a very new person to it all.
  

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  I have a supermicro 2xeon cpu 16 bay hot swap if interested.

  or a 8 bay 6 cpu xeon

  byterunner

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  Not able to increase the Storage Host Space. Getting error message.
  

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  @premkumar

  Guys, I solved this problem. Writing back to keep everybody updated.
  When I wanted to increase the storage space of my host from 1.6 TB to 2.5 TB, the first thing I had to do normally was that I had to increase the size of LUN on my NAS from 1.6 TB to 2.5 TB.
  I did that in my NAS settings. While increasing this, NAS did highlighted that before increasing the LUN size, any client (OS) using the LUN/iTarget should first be disconnected. I did not do that as in some previous instances, when I did the same, windows were not having any trouble.

  What I simply did was – Restarted the computer, which I never preferred in order to maintain 100% uptime so far. One thing I noticed that while restarting the computer, Window 10 also configured the Windows update. A quick google on Microsoft help sites, also hinted that it happens sometime when windows drivers are updated or something similar post a windows update.

  So I am not sure, what was the actual problem, weather it was a problem the way I increased the LUN space or it was Windows Update which needed a reboot.
  Ultimately my problem is solved by a simple reboot. I have successfully increased my SIA HOST size from 1.6 TB to 2.5 TB.

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  Kindly post a blog on SiaUI's Wallet Details....
  

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  @bryan
  Thank you for responding especially because generally it takes time to respond, which I consider the utmost precious thing.

  However, it is not helpful. There are two indicative things then

  Like MSDN (one of the greatest help collection by any IT company), I would expect a single responsory of help for Sia. However, Sia is new, definitely I would not expect it sooner, but I hope company must be planning in this direction too. Based on the answers of Q1 & Q2, then only best possible solution, to keep the highest possible up-time for Sia HOST is - Virtualization.
  a. Install the SIAUI v1.3.1 on a Virtual Machine. Have regular backup of the VM file itself. So that in case of VM getting corrupted or the VM Host getting corrupted, you can simply take the VM file and bring it up on a different VM Host. In few minutes, you VM will be up and running that means SiaUI v1.3.1 will be up and running.
  b. Host the Siahostdata.data and saihostmetadata.dat on NAS. NAS will expose these files using LUN to the VM’s OS. This will make sure that VM OS will be able to write and read to the customer’s’ data at a very fast speed too. LUN is used by all the major banks’ servers and for services like Database Servers, WebServices which demand highest possible read and write speed.

  IF not till now, then I would request the SiaUI architects to consider its architecture to support High Availably Deployment (step2a & 2b) mainly because if more HOST are highly available, more clients will come to your ecosystem. Hence Sia must rethink this situation if not until now. At least for now, its seems that Virtualization is the only possible solution to achieve the same.

  I am hosting my SiaHost from Laptop but storage is coming from step 2b. Hence, I know sooner or latter my laptop (even though it would have been a desktop) will crash or power supply until will fail. In that case what will I do, or what other HOST providers will do ?

  I am putting a case together that if Sia is serious about highest possible UPTIME HOST and most of HOST to be in their ecosystem for # of years, they should be designing their application, from Enterprise Perspective too, which then will include my concerns as put together above.

  Thanks
  Prem Kumar
  Solution Architect

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  But I think, it will cost you 0.018 cents. I did it recently and I was charged. Just fyi.
  

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