Sia install on Digital Ocean Ubuntu

readme.adoc

HOWTO Run Sia host on Ubuntu server

Based on:

• https://gist.github.com/pmknutsen/7521a29fe8125c24eb3e#file-gistfile1-txt

• https://blog.sia.tech/how-to-run-a-host-on-sia-2159ebc4725

Updated: 2017-06-26

Tested with Sia 1.2.2 and Ubuntu 16.04

Create user siad

sudo adduser siad
su siad

Download and install Sia binaries

cd ~
wget https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/releases/download/v1.2.2/Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64.zip
unzip Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64.zip
rm Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64.zip
mv Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64/ Sia/

Create siad.service

joe ~/.config/systemd/siad.service

Add these lines to siad.service

[Unit]
Description=Sia Daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/siad/Sia/siad
WorkingDirectory=/home/siad/Sia/
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=siad.service

Note	If you are also running Sia-UI, change WorkingDirectory above to: WorkingDirectory=/home/siad/.config/Sia-UI/sia/

Exit to root user

exit

Configure firewall (if ufw is in use)

ufw allow 9982

Start siad as a service

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable ~/.config/systemd/siad.service
systemctl start siad.service

Sia should now be running as a service which can be confirmed with:

curl -s -X GET http://localhost:9980/consensus -A "Sia-Agent"

Next, lets configure siad by changing to user siad:

su siad
cd ~/Sia

Create new wallet:

./siac wallet init

Unlock wallet (might take upwards to a minute, but probably less):

./siac wallet unlock

Create a new wallet address that you can receive funds on:

./siac wallet address

Create a storage folder (can be anywhere)

mkdir ~/Sia/STORAGE
./siac host folder add ./STORAGE/ 5GB

Set your prices

./siac host config minstorageprice 11574074074
./siac host config mindownloadbandwidthprice 25000000000000
./siac host config minuploadbandwidthprice 1000000000000

Note	For now, I used the default

1 SC = 1e24 hastings 30 SC = 30'000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

Confirm your host status:

./siac host

To announce, you will need 50k to 100k SC as collateral per TB. 1 TB = 1024GB 5 GB = 0.00488 TB = 488 SC

Announce your host:

./siac host announce

Wait a few minutes/hours and confirm other nodes see you:

http://siapulse.com/page/network

FYI, I couldn't edit with Joe, Vim, etc. I used "systemctl edit --force"

I still can't figure out what's going on related to ~/.config/systemd/siad.service. I either can't edit it, or the later command "systemctl enable ~/.config/systemd/siad.service" doesn't work because it can't find it.

you need to create the service under system user not siad, because it tells you to create it using joe , while under the siad user but then tells u to start the services after exiting siad, so your ~ folder changes