Thanks for the replies, Im seeing this is an active community which is key for success. I also would like to use Sia as archive, I use Amazon Glacier for that now but I think Sia could do that better/cheaper.
Sorry to be a fool, where is/how do I launch Sia as command line for Windows?
You gotta plug that security hole with the unlocked wallet, for now Ill keep my SC on one machine always locked and set the other as the one available for hosting.
What security hole are you talking about? We do recommend keeping most of your coins in a cold wallet (unplugged from the internet, and backed up in several places), and only keeping coins you need in the near future on an open machine.
v0.5.0 is aiming to make Sia a substantial improvement to Amazon Glacier. We're trying to work out all the kinks, and I think we've come a long way since v0.4.8.
You can drag-and-drop the 'siac' or 'siad' binary into a command prompt. The v0.4.8 binaries can be downloaded here:
https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/releases/tag/v0.4.8-beta
In v0.5.0 coming soon you will be able to set your own period. So, you could increase the default 6,000 blocks to something much higher.
That is incorrect. The big change is that files will automatically re-upload, meaning that they'll stay online so long as you continue running the daemon. For v0.5.0, files will go up for 4 weeks by default and renew when there are 2 weeks left. The numbers are small so we can see how the hosts + renters behave on a short timescale in a live environment before switching to bigger file contracts. For v1.0, I think the upload time will be 6 months (26 weeks), renewing when there are 12 weeks remaining. We will probably add customizability to those numbers, but those customizations are not ready for v0.5.0.