Ease farmer's job(backup & replication) to increase reliability and adoption

[Stranger]

Farmers should replicate their systems to not loose their collaterals.
To setup a geographically replicated storage system is a complicated task, absolutely impossible for non techies, so that may drastically limit the adoption. But Sia already includes everything that is needed to handle it.

So i think that all we need is a way for farmers to specify that they want to host the data in multiple locations.
I think it should be "As simple as" declaring the "same account" in multiple instances of siad or some kind of "replica/child account".

Thx

[Taek]

Sia already handles the redundancy, there's not a ton of reason to do replication on the host machine as well. I think that RAID5 would be worthwhile for larger rigs, but even with no replication, Sia is designed to handle host failures. You will lose data occasionally from failing drives, but as long as your drives are failing every 18-36 months and not more frequently you should both be more profitable and not threaten the integrity of the renter's files. The renter's anticipate that your drives will fail occasionally, and while the host loses collateral every time that happens, it's a small amount of collateral as long as the failures are infrequent.

[Stranger]

Thank you Taek for your answer.
I was not thinking about replication on the host machine but rather on a different host in a different geographic location.
I live in Africa (in Morocco, we are quite developped for an african country but it's still a third world country) and i am more concerned about internet availability. I often have 2-3 hours of disconnection every couple of days.