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Is hosting the image yourself, on like a $5 Digital Ocean Droplet and a $10 personal domain, out of the question? This would seem to be the ideal situation in t

Is hosting the image yourself, on like a $5 Digital Ocean Droplet and a $10 personal domain, out of the question? This would seem to be the ideal situation in terms of simple, decentralized file hosting solution. What are the downsides of this approach? (I can imagine a server package that can modify index.html sub-resource URLs depending on current server load, preferring private, locally hosted sub-resources but willing to use 3rd party solutions like Cloudflare, too, if required by a black swan event.)

bscphil 6y ago
Out of the question? No. As convenient as running one command on a desktop computer? Also no. > the ideal situation in terms of simple, decentralized file hosting solution Not sure what you mean by "decentralized" if you are in fact hosting it yourself. > What are the downsides of this approach? Well, for the casual person it has the obvious downside that you have to have your own VPS. Most people don't have those. Even if you do, IPFS has a couple of advantages: you can host images anonymously, and anyone anywhere in the world can "pin" the image to make sure it stays live. If you're using a server and you forget to pay DO your $5 one month, all your images go poof into the ether.