Sia host

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Sia host (hostd) - supply side / the arbitrage test Storagefails: quotaanonymousno cardR
skynet / siastream Storagedeademail?card?R

Sia host (hostd) - supply side / the arbitrage test Storage

fails: quotaanonymousno cardR

sia.tech/provide-storage · contributed storage - become a host · storage/sia-host-supply-side-the-arbitrage-test · JSON · compare

Free tier	you set your own price; network median is $1.17/TB/month storage and $2.25/TB download (siascan), $1.30 KS/TB/month unit TB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	you are PAID for egress ($2.25/TB median) rather than charged price_per_tb: $2.25/TB
Identity	anonymous anonymous
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	cli hostd daemon (Docker/Linux/macOS/Windows), open ports, Siacoin wallet
Tooling	hostd desktop app v0.46.1, hostd CLI, siascan for competitor pricing
Composes with	earn SC, buy storage with SC on the same network - the only place where the earn and spend currencies actually match
Reliability	Lose the data or fail a proof and the collateral is burned; a single drive failure is a total loss for that contract.
Notes	you set your own price; network median is $1.17/TB/month storage and $2.25/TB download (siascan), $1.30 KS/TB/month
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	siascan.com/	'Median storage price $1.17/TB/month'; 'Median download price $2.25/TB'; 530 active hosts, 2.19 PB used of 7.12 PB
2026-10-21	docs.sia.tech/store-your-data/about-renting.md	'Network pricing averages around $3 per terabyte per month, including 3x redundancy'
2026-10-21	docs.sia.tech/provide-storage/about-hosting-on-sia	'set your collateral to around 2-3x your base storage price ... if you've priced your storage at 50 SC/TB, you should set your collateral at 100-150 SC/TB'
2026-10-21	sia.tech/provide-storage	'Lose the data, or fail to prove you still have it, and you lose the collateral you put up'; 'Open ports - Renters connect to your host directly ... forwarding hostd's ports'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "you set your own price; network median is $1.17/TB/month storage and $2.25/TB download (siascan), $1.30 KS/TB/month",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

skynet / siastream Storage

deademail?card?R

docs.sia.tech/store-your-data/using-sia-storage.md · rejected-provider · storage/skynet-siastream · JSON · compare

Free tier	Skynet is gone as a free product; Sia's current offering is the 50 GB hosted Sia Storage account recorded above. The Skynet guides that still rank describe a discontinued portal model. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Skynet is gone as a free product; Sia's current offering is the 50 GB hosted Sia Storage account recorded above. The Skynet guides that still rank describe a discontinued portal model.
Notes	Skynet is gone as a free product; Sia's current offering is the 50 GB hosted Sia Storage account recorded above. The Skynet guides that still rank describe a discontinued portal model.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.sia.tech/store-your-data/using-sia-storage.md	Skynet is gone as a free product Sia's current offering is the 50 GB hosted Sia Storage account recorded above. The Skynet guides that still rank describe a discontinued portal model.

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "dead-service",
  "why": "Skynet is gone as a free product; Sia's current offering is the 50 GB hosted Sia Storage account recorded above. The Skynet guides that still rank describe a discontinued portal model.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded