3. Questions from a Host with Active Contracts

Questions from a Host with Active Contracts


  • If anyone can answer these questions please jump in.

    • How does a HOST know when a renter is actually going to buy our storage- is there any notice of the partnership prior to them uploading to our available storage? I notice file transfers to my drives happen without any prior notification.

    • When a renter decides to use my storage- how can I tell what they have agreed to pay me? Is there a command that allows hosts to track the earnings or price per renter contract? Currently I only see an expected SC earning- but not sure how this is derived.

    • How long can a host disconnect from the network for maintenance before getting penalized on their collateral?

    Thanks in advance!

    Unofficial User / Tester / Analyst of Sia ( w/Renter and Host experience)

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    I can answer the last question per copy&paste from The Hosting Handbook:

    How Uptime Affects Score

    There is no penalty at all if your uptime is more than 98%. The penalty is very small if your uptime is more than 95% (score is multiplied by 90%). It starts to get nasty after that though. A host with 90% uptime gets a 2x penalty, and a host with 80% uptime gets a 30x penalty. 70% uptime has more than a 1000x penalty and it gets increasingly severe. Most of the penalties follow step functions, but the uptime penalties follow a smooth curve. That is, a host with 91% uptime will have a higher score than a host with 90% uptime. If you can stay above 95% you basically don't have to worry about it.

    95% uptime is actually very forgiving. It means that you need to have a host that is running 24/7, but frequent downtime is okay. You do not want to have downtime exceeding 24 hours, and you also do not want to spend more than about 36 hours of downtime total in any 30 day period. But that means you have plenty of time for reboots, for debugging, and other types of maintenance. And it means you can survive events like power outages without a huge impact on your uptime score.

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  • "There is no penalty at all if your uptime is more than 98%."

    Percentages mean very little unless we know what and how they are applied. (98% of of contract uptime, 98% of overall host uptime, 98% ??)
    Also are these based on per day- per week- per month - or just lifetime of the host being online?

    Unofficial User / Tester / Analyst of Sia ( w/Renter and Host experience)

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