Offer your storage space on the Sia network.
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Official software, developed by the Sia Foundation.
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A next-generation Sia host, developed by the Sia Foundation. Built for performance and reliability.
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Learn how to become a host and offer storage on the Sia network using hostd.
Third-party software and services, developed by the community.
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A Telegram bot (or any other messaging service) that forwards any urgent renterd or hostd alerts from the Alerts API.
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Prometheus is a monitoring system for metrics and alerting. The hostd-prometheus-exporter integrates Prometheus with hostd’s extensive metrics.
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Grafana is a widely adopted open source analytics & monitoring solution. Set up a hostd metrics dashboard with the Prometheus exporter and this dashboard file.
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The Sia Central Host Browser lets you explore and filter Sia hosts by a variety of criteria.
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The Sia Central Host Troubleshoot Tool lets you troubleshoot issues with your Sia host.
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Third-party hosting software that the Sia Foundation and community would love to see built.
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With the recent release of hostd, the Sia Foundation would like to see the community get creative and build new benchmarking and scoring tools. Interested in building a benchmarking tool for Sia? Apply for a Grant!
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Running a host requires good stability and uptime, it would be useful to have monitoring tools that track status and alerting tools that send email or SMS notifications when a node goes offline. Interested in building a monitoring tool for hostd? Apply for a Grant!
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Tutorials on how to get started hosting and how to use Sia with other common software.
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Technical deep-dives from the core team and the ecosystem of developers building technology on top of Sia.
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Learn how the Sia protocol works to power redundant, decentralized, data storage.
510,515 block height
86,100 online hosts
455 active hosts
7.88 PB total storage
2.43 PB used storage
413 M total registry
3 M used registry
20,996 commits
71 contributors
470 forks
43 releases