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

[premkumar]

Kindly publish a blog explaining the details on

1. How SiaUI Stores the Siacoin, include details like does it store coins fully locally on the computer or on your server or hybrid approach
2. Include details like — what happens to my Siacoin in case of the full crash of the laptop, where SiaUI is installed.
3. Include details like — Backup procedure and strategies a person should be doing regularly to service a laptop Crash where SiaUI is installed with Siacoin in it.

I have SiaCoins and being a solution architect, I am more uncomfortable as things are not in my hand mainly because of lack of good documentations around the topics, I am requesting.

Another reason, I am getting worried because I am also hosting 1.6 TB of my space using SMB grade Data Center (of course :) via a 6U Server Rack setup with different and several type redundancy). Check my investment details with technical level at

This will give you a hint about my investment and my plan, which will ultimately tell that why I am desperately looking for the information as I am requesting above.

[bryan]

@premkumar All your questions can be answered on google many times over but here goes.

1. Coins are stored on the blockchain.
2. Your coins can be recovered with your seed. In the future your seed will recover your files. Currently I think it's total loss of files on crash.
3. Kind of the same answer as 2.

[premkumar]

@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

1. 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.
2. 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