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Torrents are static and so are their hashes on the DHT. For blogs, recipe sites and say content creators putting a new video on their site every week, this is n
by zaik 5y ago
Torrents are static and so are their hashes on the DHT. For blogs, recipe sites and say content creators putting a new video on their site every week, this is not very practical esp. when there are no peers to host their content if their computer is offline. IPFS has a similar problem.
- zdkl 5y agoHonestly, I could see this as a pitch for a decent tiktok like service. Your video lives as long as someone somewhere has watched it recently. I might actually enjoy something like that.
- sktrdie 5y agoThe online peers are virtually servers. If a market is created then peers could get paid to host/seed your site. Instead of buying say a server as we do today for HTTP sites. Also there are mutable torrents.
- zozbot234 5y ago> For blogs, recipe sites and say content creators putting a new video on their site every week, this is not very practical IPNS can be used to leverage IPFS for dynamic or updatable content. Lack of peers is still an issue of course, but it does away with the need for a dedicated CDN once your content gets popular enough since users will be seeding it themselves.
- throwaway316943 5y agoThat’s where the innovation is needed. You need some form of dedicated hosting, dns, a notification system to alert you when new content is available or automatically download it. The static nature of the content isn’t problem, that’s how media has existed forever and most web media is still only published once and never revised. With a smart enough client though you could receive patches to existing content. The space is more similar to a newsletter but much more capable.
- aabbcc1241 5y agoZeronet can serve frequently updated content in distributed (p2p) network. It works for blogs, forum and social network.