It is profitable for the host. Even if we consider a price of $1/Tb/month. You can buy enterprise-grade HDDs at less than $25/Tb and they are prepared to last more than 5 years. A ROI of 2 years (or less) is perfectly acceptable if your HDDs are going to last more than 5 years. Hosting is not like mining were difficulty increases over time. In hoisting, if you stay ompetitive you'll keep getting contracts forever. And electricity costs are irrelevant: a good HDD of 4Tb or even 8Tb will consume less than 3W
And do you know companies can not apply to that offer? And do you know there is no limit of transfer on Sia? And do you know data is not natively encrypted on Dropbox, and they can do whatever they want with your data? Like for example, in a few years limit the "unlimited" tier to force you to pay more for all that data you have already stored with them.
And oh, BTW, Sia is less than $3/Tb/month. Deal with it.
Simple question: as i see, it has lots of advantages, including the one that makes everybody pay attention: price (huge). Why then it has not gone mainstream yet?
Thank you in advance for ur time and answer.