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  Trade with the best!
  

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  Revenue/cost model
  

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  Perhaps eventually a "help bubble" (or help menu, or some such thing) could appear directly in the Sia GUI for convenience?

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  In order to host, which port should be open and which one closed ? Is there any security concerns ?
  

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  you should open just 2 default ports(excl. admin ssh etc)

  9981(wallet gateway?) and 9982(you can use any while setting up host, but default for hosts 9982).

  thats enough to get it work and accessable from network

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  How much money do I need to send to my wallet to start hosting ?
  

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  @Taek It would be good to display the price in USD, and/or be able to set up the price in USD

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  I have a lot of error calls when I check with ./siac host -v. Is it normal ?
  

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  Oh, ok. I have been testing the restore of my renter data a few times, and a few attempts seem to have failed. So I "abandoned" those renter contracts and started over with blank renter data. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't causing problems, lol.

  I only set my allowance to 3000-6000 SiaCoin, and all the contracts completed forming. So I'm glad I'm not the rogue renter!

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  Questions
  

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  I don't fully understand the question, but basically you are only charged for what you are using. If you are doing incremental backups, then you will only be increasing the amount of storage by a tiny bit each day.

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  ZFS backup
  

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  If you were going to use Sia, what you would want to do is have a 'siad' instance running in the background of your machine, and then send it your snapshots when you have them. If you want to do deduplication, you would need to do that before Sia receives the snapshots. Is that along the lines of what you are looking for?

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  HIPPA Compliance
  

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  hmm, maybe you were just making too many posts per hour as a new account? I'm really sorry about that, we definitely aren't trying to limit the amount of legitimate posting that can happen.

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  Change Ports for Sharing Data on Sia-UI
  

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  Only for API address, not all siad flags are supported. I added a PR to the UI today that adds support for --rpc-addr and --host-addr.

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  How to avoid illegal content!?
  

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  Well, I agree that open host IPs is not very good. However I don't know any blockchain-based system, where IP-addresses of nodes are hidden.

  Monero devs, for example, are working on protocol improvement that will hide IP-address for node which first broadcasts transaction, so third-party won't be able to track where the transaction came from. But even with this improvement IPs of blockchain network nodes are public.

  On the other hand, considering that every stored piece of data is encrypted, what's the point of hiding the IP-address of host? Yeah, the world knows that this IP-address hosts a storage space for Sia. So what?
  I don't believe it is possible that just running a node (and hosting storage) may be forbidden by law. That would be ridiculous. How can you ban running an open-source software?

  Also there are Tor and other solutions if you really care to be "invisible".

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  would be poassible in a near future mount remote device using webdav
  

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  It's something that would be possible and there's even an in-progress app to support it: http://forum.sia.tech/topic/861/windows-storage-driver

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  By the Numbers
  

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  Thanks for the quick reply! Assuming we have the fiber to support, can we string together 10 accounts and/or boxes to put one more zero on to those numbers?

  Will the velocity throttling occur by node/account?

  In the future, do you foresee an option to pay for more or less speed? Redundancy?

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  SIA coin needed to host files?
  

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  That's correct. The 50k siacoins is used as a promise that you will be a good host/reliable host and that you will keep storing data for the next few months. You get the collateral back once you have fulfilled the contracts, but then frequently you'll put the collateral right back into your next contracts.

  Over time, you will get revenue as well. And, if at any point you wish to stop, you can turn off the 'Accepting Contracts' field, which means you will stop forming new contracts and eventually be able to collect all of your collateral again.

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  Estimated Competitive Price: Unavailable
  

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  yeah. The whole process is a bit involved, but basically when you allocate an allowance of like 5KS to Sia, you form a bunch of contracts with hosts allocating a total of approximately 5 KS. Based on the host prices, you get an estimate for how much storage you will be able to upload. This can be affected by how frequently you download things, etc.

  The graphical interface for the renter will likely never have all that much customization, we aren't really targeting high customizability with our graphical client. However, the API is a different story, and we do plan on adding a bunch of customization that third-party apps and developers can utilize.

  Already the API is a lot more powerful than what the GUI allows you to do (for example, the GUI sets the redundancy for you, but in the API you can add your own redundancy settings).

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  Addressing Thoughtful Concerns about Sia's Security + Viability
  

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  How do I get started?
  

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  Test in private network with some nodes.
  

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