Excessive host bandwidth

[tencent]

As a viability test for siacoin I set up a small VM with 50GB of hosting space, staked a bit of sia and waited to see what would happen.

After a few weeks the short answer was not much. The estimated revenue was a few siacoin and I turned off announcements so that eventually I could turn down the server and get my stake back once the contract ended life.

Fast forward a few more weeks, my upload is just getting insane. My ~58MB of rented storage has caused 6.8TB of upload in the past 60 days. Now obviously this is my fault for assuming this would basically be a cost-free adventure. Unfortunately, this has been causing issues with my day to day work considering my upload throughput is locked up. Am I alone on this or is it common for renters to download excessively? Did I screw up my pricing? Unless I'm reading the host stats incorrectly I've earned almost nothing despite uploading quite a lot of data.

Relevant host info:

Host Financials:
        Contract Count:               1
        Transaction Fee Compensation: 0 H
        Potential Fee Compensation:   3 SC
        Transaction Fee Expenses:     0 H

        Storage Revenue:           0 H
        Potential Storage Revenue: 35.43 mS

        Locked Collateral: 10.64 SC
        Risked Collateral: 70.86 mS
        Lost Collateral:   0 H

        Download Revenue:           0 H
        Potential Download Revenue: 2.627 mS
        Upload Revenue:             0 H
        Potential Upload Revenue:   58.72 uS

        mincontractprice:          3 SC
        mindownloadbandwidthprice: 25 SC / TB
        minstorageprice:           50 SC / TB / Month
        minuploadbandwidthprice:   1 SC / TB

[lasat]

Hi,

could be the same issue described here: https://forum.sia.tech/topic/2412/siad-sending-large-amount-of-data-through-network/8

[reinisp]

I think the most possible reason for the bandwidth is participating in the Sia network by helping to distribute the consensus.
If port 9981 makes most of the network traffic.

[tencent]

Well I'm not really interested in digging deeper into the problem over a couple cents of value. I turned down my VM and ended my hosting adventure. I'm not sure how anyone is able to make any money with bandwidth drain like that. Thankfully I didn't do something silly like host on a cloud instance like AWS as that would have destroyed me in transfer fees.

[lasat]

@reinisp : I agree with this and know it is important, but the height of bandwith usage should be fairly distributed and/or limited.