datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
-- 5-4-3-2-1-bang from this thread
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I use Sia as a renter (paying for storage) and I am also a host (selling storage space) on the Sia network.
Currently use it to host videos from peertube.wtf. It’s not perfect yet, but it works.
For how long have you being using it? How's the reliability?
I have been using it for about 6 months now. no issues.
I currently only use 163.92 GB @ 4.2x of storage though and renting out about 2TB of storage.
It is actually fairly easy to setup. Both hosting and renting.
What do you mean with "@4.2x"?
It’s the redundancy. So a file exists at 4.2 hosts on average. The minimum is 3, which is something you set yourself.
Got it, thanks!