Provide storage
Run hostd to rent out disk space on the Sia network. You set your prices, and storage contracts pay you in Siacoin for the data you keep.
Before you start
Hosts are paid to keep data online for the length of each contract. Lose the data, or fail to prove you still have it, and you lose the collateral you put up.
A machine that stays on
Leave hostd running day and night. Renters choose hosts they can reach, and while yours is offline it misses their uploads and downloads.
Disks you trust
You agree to keep each renter's data until their contract ends. Plan for a drive failing before one does.
Some Siacoin
Every contract locks collateral from your wallet, and each transaction costs a small fee. You get the collateral back when you keep the data to the end.
Open ports
Renters connect to your host directly. On a home network that means forwarding hostd's ports on your router.
Set up hostd
About 45 minutes from download to your first contracts, most of it waiting for the blockchain to sync.
Sync the blockchain
Leave hostd running while it downloads the Sia blockchain, and go do something else. You only do this once, and hostd takes no contracts until it finishes.
Fund the wallet
Buy Siacoin on an exchange and send it to the address hostd shows. It covers the collateral on each contract and the transaction fees.
Configure your host
Add the drives or folders hostd stores data in, check its ports are reachable, and set your prices. The network figures below show what other hosts charge. Then start accepting contracts.
Earn
Renters form contracts with your host and upload encrypted shards to it. You are paid for the data you store and for what you send and receive. Keep hostd online and up to date, and watch its dashboard for a low wallet or a missed proof.
The network today
Live figures from Siascan to help you size and price a host. Prices are medians across all providers, converted to US dollars.
- Median storage price
- $1.02/TB/month
- Median upload price
- $0.02/TB
- Median download price
- $2.50/TB
- Active providers
- 533
- Capacity offered
- 7.62 PB
- Capacity in use
- 2.24 PB
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