Some questions to be answered…

I got this error :”To host files you must keep the Sia-UI open. Collateral will also be locked and you will be unable to spend that SC until the contract is expired.”

Does it mean?…

1.-  if my computer is not on, then users won’t be able to access their files?

2.- Can I just run the Sia UI/node 5 days a week, or does it has to be running 24/7?

3.- What is collateral?

4.- I was not able to assign a new folder to host; so I got an error saying: “A required privilege is not held by the client”, how or where to fix that?

 

Here is the link of some answers I got from the sia blog: http://blog.sia.tech/2016/05/26/how-to-run-a-host-on-sia/

And this is the Slack channel, where some users may be abe to answer more questions:

https://siatalk.slack.com/messages/general/

 

5.- For example, when there is a new version of Next, I can just delete/uninstall Next and install it again, and it works, is this the same case with Sia or if I do that will I lose something?