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If I understand correctly, you still need a gateway VPS to proxy the ipfs site out to the internet over http. Isn't this a single point of failure, as your gate

If I understand correctly, you still need a gateway VPS to proxy the ipfs site out to the internet over http. Isn't this a single point of failure, as your gateway server will be pegged. Or am I misunderstanding the implementation? You could have a VPS in multiple regions, but we're back at square one.

dna_polymerase 9y ago
I think you can run IPFS locally and access the IPFS network without a gateway this way.
- Kudos 9y ago
  Sounds like IPFS needs more ubiquity before this is something you can rely on. I know IPFS support is coming to Firefox soon, but I suspect it's much further off for other browsers.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    "IPFS support is coming to Firefox soon" Not exactly, as far as I understand it; you still need to manually install an addon, it's just that the addon can now handle ipfs:// links when you click on them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243530
    - diggan 9y ago
      That's entirely correct. Before it had to be prefixed with `web+` and now just `ipfs://` will work. For the extension, the IPFS community have been developing one which will use this new feature: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion PR for tracking the protocol handler is here: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/359 https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/359 Disclaimer: I work for Protocol Labs on IPFS
sudhirj 9y ago
Anybody can gateway the entire IPFS network, so not really. The officially maintained gateway is just one gateway. If you don’t want to rely on it, can run your own.
- KirinDave 9y ago
  But without sufficient traffic you'll incur IPNS lookup penalties.
diggan 9y ago
There is at least two ways of fixing this. First one is that browsers implements IPFS, and reshares the website when you visit it. Second would be for paulogr to include js-ipfs in the webpage, so when users visits the page, they also reshare the website (if there is enough resources/not on battery/$other_criteria). Users would send the data for the website in-between them, just verify the data's signature. Disclaimer: I work for Protocol Labs on IPFS

dna_polymerase 9y ago

I think you can run IPFS locally and access the IPFS network without a gateway this way.

Kudos 9y ago
Sounds like IPFS needs more ubiquity before this is something you can rely on. I know IPFS support is coming to Firefox soon, but I suspect it's much further off for other browsers.
- icebraining 9y ago
  "IPFS support is coming to Firefox soon" Not exactly, as far as I understand it; you still need to manually install an addon, it's just that the addon can now handle ipfs:// links when you click on them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243530
  - diggan 9y ago
    That's entirely correct. Before it had to be prefixed with `web+` and now just `ipfs://` will work. For the extension, the IPFS community have been developing one which will use this new feature: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion PR for tracking the protocol handler is here: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/359 https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/359 Disclaimer: I work for Protocol Labs on IPFS

sudhirj 9y ago

Anybody can gateway the entire IPFS network, so not really. The officially maintained gateway is just one gateway. If you don’t want to rely on it, can run your own.

KirinDave 9y ago
But without sufficient traffic you'll incur IPNS lookup penalties.

diggan 9y ago

There is at least two ways of fixing this. First one is that browsers implements IPFS, and reshares the website when you visit it. Second would be for paulogr to include js-ipfs in the webpage, so when users visits the page, they also reshare the website (if there is enough resources/not on battery/$other_criteria). Users would send the data for the website in-between them, just verify the data's signature. Disclaimer: I work for Protocol Labs on IPFS