When you rent out disk space using SIA, do you need to open any ports on a router to the server you are hosting it on? And also how many SIA do you need to have in the wallet, will having more result in better payment or trustworthiness to others? Like a rating/positive review system?
Yes, you need to port-forward the ports 9981 and 9982 in your router and allow their traffic in the firewall of your hosting computer. The minimal collateral budget required is 2000SC, but if you plan to host large amounts of data you will need much, much more. You select your own pricing, including the collateral per TB per month you offer as a guarantee you will keep the files during all the time with the required uptime. The more collateral, the better score (and so more chances to be selected as a host by a renter).
How to i can rent strorage from my wallet!
I try many times but can not finish!
Check this guide if you want to be a host (offer your disks):
https://siawiki.tech/host/using_the_ui_for_hostingor this other one if you want to be a renter (pay for saving your data on the Sia cloud):
https://siawiki.tech/renter/using_the_ui_for_rentingWhat exactly is difference from cloud applications like dropbox iCloud? decentralized systems have recently become fashionable. but how much the projects can be implemented.
Excellent point of view! I also saw some guys in the topic asked about real-life services which has been used from Sia project. Have you ever used them?
At some point I had almost 1TB of data stored on the Sia network. I am also a host, so receiving compensation for offering storage. There is a ranking of renters that voluntarily decide to share their logs of used space to compete to be the top uploader:
https://rankings.sia.tech/ So as you see real people is using Sia. Also check the usage of the network
https://siastats.info/hosts_network.html (105 TB used in a network of almost 3500 TB) and this map of the host's network:
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FVflpxBa.jpg&t=665&c=9UjSorUbiaKecQ)
So as you can see, Sia is already a working product with a working network (and it has been working for more than 2 years).