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The killer app for IPFS in this early days should be people who are paying $10/mo to host their half-dozen HTML files on WhateverHost companies everywhere. Bonu
by fiatjaf 8y ago
The killer app for IPFS in this early days should be people who are paying $10/mo to host their half-dozen HTML files on WhateverHost companies everywhere. Bonus points if they are hosting heavy files, like podcast files, for example.
Is there a Soundcloud clone on IPFS anywhere? (One that doesn't provide you with cloud storage, only the public index)
- magnetic 8y agoIs there a way (even not free) to ensure that my data in IPFS is always available (at least as available as with "traditional hosting services)? That's a bit of a requirement when building a serious service/website.
- 0x8BADF00D 8y agoCAP theorem.
- wiml 8y agoAs I understand it, the way is: run an IPFS node (perhaps on a cheap VPS); use `ipfs pin ` to force the node to retain the file even if it isn't being requested. Presumably someone could sell "pinning as a service" for fairly cheap: a popular file will be widely cached, so the service will rarely need to provide it; and an unpopular file will be rarely requested.
- magnetic 8y agoIsn't pinning as a service essentially a CDN? Is there a reason to believe that such service would be cheaper than a "traditional" CDN?
- qbaqbaqba 8y agohttps://www.eternum.io https://www.eternum.io
- mStreamTeam 8y agoI'm working something like this. The idea is that the artist hosts their own server and payment gateway, and therefore receives all the profits from any sales they make. Adding IPFS ontop of this would make it more robust.
- fiatjaf 8y agoI'm interested (although I'm not an artist nor I have any stuff to host besides my own rants).