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Welcome to the renterd wiki, a collection of information about renterd and how to use it to rent storage on the Sia network.
This wiki is a WIP and will be extended over time as renterd evolves.
The Sia network is a distributed marketplace of cloud storage where hosts sell their disk space and renters can rent it using a token called Siacoin. The software renters use to get access to that marketplace is called renterd. The d stands for daemon, a term used for software running as a background process on a server. While running, renterd serves an http API that can be used to upload files to the Sia network and download them. Software that wants to use Sia as a backend consumes this API similar to how it would use the API of other storage providers. The actual upload/download of files to/from the network is then handled by renterd.
We recommend that you first check out the learning material on our website to get a high level overview of how Sia works before diving into renterd.
If you know how to run renterd already and want to get started building right away take a look at the API docs.
We also host official docker images. At this time we automatically build master, stable, master-testnet and stable-testnet images.
You can run renterd with the following command assuming you already have a seed. See here how to obtain a seed.
docker run -d --name renterd -e RENTERD_API_PASSWORD="<PASSWORD>" -e RENTERD_SEED="<SEED>" -p 127.0.0.1:9880:9880/tcp -p :9881:9981/tcp ghcr.io/siafoundation/renterd:stable-testnet