We need a low cost source for large 1 Tb+ drives for it to be competitive with external drives. Our current source only goes to 320 GB.
Do you mean like a cloud storage provider? Or more like a VPS?
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If anyone is interested in running a "bootstrap node", please PM me. If you are running a bootstrap node, it means that you'll be in the list of nodes that people connect to first. It means that you need 98-99% uptime for your node, and it also means that people will probably be downloading a lot of blocks from you and using up a small amount of bandwidth. If Sia grows by 10x in the next month, you can expect to upload around 20-50GB from your node - it's not that much but it's also not trivial.
You will need forwarded ports. Ideally I think we'd like to have 10-20 people step forward as volunteers. The more volunteers that we get, the less strain that each volunteer will experience on their node.
Thanks!
im happy to step forward taek ...
ill have a dedicated system ( or systems if we need more ) up and running specifically for this ...
let me know ...