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Practical IPFS image hosting looks an awful lot like image hosting without IPFS. Most of your traffic's gonna be through gateways, not over IPFS proper. You've
by shantly 7y ago
Practical IPFS image hosting looks an awful lot like image hosting without IPFS. Most of your traffic's gonna be through gateways, not over IPFS proper. You've still gotta have always-on servers pinning (storing) everything for reliability. There also doesn't seem to be a good way to make mobile devices—most of the clients out there—useful parts of the distributed network.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoHN throws IPFS around a lot as if it's free storage + free bandwidth. But as you point out, you still must run an origin server. At which point it's just a slower, crappier CDN where you stand up your other CDN nodes yourself. Your content doesn't just magically spread to random nodes once you broadcast it.