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Yes. Look into IPFS, interplanetary file system. You still need machines to serve files. However, the system has some definite advantages: 1. A file/direc
by kefka 10y ago
Yes.
Look into IPFS, interplanetary file system. You still need machines to serve files. However, the system has some definite advantages:
1. A file/directory is referred to its immutable hash.
2. A request for a specific hash is made to the network, not a single machine.
3. All machines that have that hash can swarm-download, like bittorrent
4. All communication is point-to-point encrypted
5. For backend, you can mount IPFS directly to the file system, via /ipfs and /ipns
The gist behind this is allows you to create a backend CDN of whoever is cheapest right now, and then load the images on your webpages (as gateways). It's still alpha, but so far my stability (and others running it) have shown that this system can easily handle large archives (800GB and up).