Pithos runs s3d, the Sia Foundation's S3 gateway, without the command line. Connect it to Sia, hand out access keys, manage buckets and watch your files reach the network.
s3d is a great piece of plumbing that you drive with a CLI and config files. Pithos keeps the plumbing and gives you the controls.
Register with sia.storage or your own indexer using your recovery phrase, or generate a new one. You approve the connection in your browser; the phrase never leaves your machine.
Create a user per app or person. Issue and revoke keys, and copy ready-made config for the aws CLI, rclone or environment variables.
Browse any user's buckets, drag files in, download them, delete folders, and make a bucket public-read when you want to serve files.
Signed links that work without a key and expire after an hour, a day or a week.
See what is still buffered locally, what is already on Sia, and anything that failed. Flush the buffer on demand.
Install the official s3d release with its checksum verified, start and stop it, follow its logs and edit its settings, including redundancy and upload threads.
Your apps talk plain S3. s3d encrypts and erasure-codes the data and spreads it across independent Sia hosts. Pithos sits beside s3d and runs it for you.
Files are encrypted before they leave your computer. Sia hosts store pieces they cannot read, and no single host holds enough to rebuild a file.
The same Pithos everywhere: one engine, one interface, three homes.
Built into the Theseus browser as an extension. Open it from the dock and it runs in a tab. Nothing extra to install.
Built into Theseus 0.3.72 Download TheseusA standalone window for Windows, macOS and Linux. Quitting stops s3d cleanly, so your upload buffer is always flushed to disk.
Installers comingRun it next to s3d on a server and open it in any browser. Loopback-only by default; password plus a TLS proxy for remote access.
Source release comingYou need a sia.storage account (or your own indexer). Pithos walks you through the rest.
aws --profile backups --endpoint-url http://127.0.0.1:8000 s3 cp ./photos s3://family/ --recursiveA storage control panel holds the keys to your data, so Pithos is strict by default.
No. Pithos is a control panel. Your data goes from s3d on your machine straight to Sia hosts, paid through your indexer account. Silent Mode never sees or holds your files.
Pithos is free and open source. Storage is billed by your Sia indexer, for example sia.storage.
v0.2.0 or newer. Pithos offers to install the right one for you and tells you when yours is too old.
Yes. Pithos uses the same config file a hand-run s3d uses. If s3d is already running, Pithos shows it as external, reads its stats and leaves the process alone.
Uploads from the Pithos window are capped at 5 GiB per file for now. S3 clients such as aws and rclone use multipart uploads and go well beyond that.
A pithos was the great storage jar of the ancient Greek world, where a household kept what it could not afford to lose.