The future majority of hosts will likely be technical people. Sia's focus is not imo people to use to keep their photo in cloud for iphone.
It is for youtube or netflix or may youtube's competitor. Business that needs cheap reliable millions of terabytes to store.
This does not make sense. If the Sia network is to be used as cheap storage for businesses' massive storage requirements, where is that storage supposed to come from?
I assumed that Sia was about enabling unused storage on millions of devices around the world to be part of a massive network, which then entities with storage requirements could use.
Clearly, the millions of devices we're talking about belong to Average Joe and Jane. Thus, the client software must be dumb-proofed and simple enough to be used by a 'regular' person.
Again this is my opinion but it is based on dev words and logical vision of Sia.
I don't see millions of joes renting their unused 200 gb from their laptop. Running Sia and keeping the client open up and running long
enough to be considered a reliable host. Certainly the more hosts the better and the beauty in Sia is
anybody can rent their space.
But realistically Sia will be a success because it allows anybody to set up their own cloud business. I can aspire to take a piece of amazon
cloud's pie by going out and buying 200 terbytes of hdds. Announcing my space on Sia without registering as a business or any licenses.
Now I attract cloud users by setting my price to what I think will take business away from amazon and use my space. Although netflix
needs millions of terabytes to run their business, my 200 terabytes is one of many reliable "small host companies" that netflix uses to
stream to their customers.
All good points, just keep in mind that you would also be competing against other SIA host in terms of where you would have to set your price point, regardless of what Netflix or youtube etc. are paying in todays market place, or even just normal users like us. Ultimately all of us who will host on a larger scale will all have to be less than todays normal cloud hosting prices per GH/month to start.
I can also see a point in time where company's/individuals would be willing to pay even more for SIA services because of its anonymity. That could possibly cause demand for SIA as the preferred way to cloud host. So really the sky is the limit. But I don't feel the in the early days we can be more expensive per dollar/GH