[anonymous5133]

From what I understand, right now these projects are working on the backbone of the systems. In the future, other developers will be able to create services on top of these platforms to resell the storage space. So maybe someone will have an online cloud hosting service with a simple drag and drop online interface. They will charge a fee to the customer and the website operator will simply buy storage contracts on SIA or similar providers to provide the actual hosting and distribution of the files.

[filebase]

You would be correct!

Filebase[1] provides S3-compatible object storage at a fraction of the price. We happily use Sia on our backend. :)

[1] https://filebase.com