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Customizable Host Selection for Sia

In the context of a bachelor thesis the official Sia implementation is altered to support customizability of the host selection process.

This client implements so-called hostdb profiles, for which the user can set a list of locations within which they wish their storage to reside in. Moreover they can specify a storage tier (as "cold", "warm" or "hot" storage). The location feature blacklists all hosts which due to their IP address appear to be from a country not whitelisted. The storage tier puts different weights on host prices when scoring hosts (cold storage puts more weight on storage price, hot storage puts more weight on bandwidth (up- and download) prices, warm storage (which is the default setting) weighs all prices equally, as in the official implementation).

Installation

• Install Golang
• run go get -u github.com/pachisi456/sia-hostdb-profiles/...
• In the repository sia-hostdb-profiles run make
• In Gobin execute siad (starts the Sia Daemon)
• Open another terminal and run siac and start playing around with it
• Explore siac hostdb profiles to play around with hostdb profiles