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It's great for CDN hosting, but honestly too good, which might indeed be tricky for their business models. If IPFS were huge, and you had a large popular static
by pimterry 5y ago
It's great for CDN hosting, but honestly too good, which might indeed be tricky for their business models. If IPFS were huge, and you had a large popular static site, in theory you don't need a CDN at all, because IPFS is a CDN all by itself.
In practice, I think they'd end up moving towards:
* seed hosting - distributing content quickly & globally, so that the rest of the IPFS network can immediately access new content, and so that content (old unpopular pages) remains quickly available even if nobody else is looking at it
* caching/DDoS protection/etc for non-static content, like most APIs, which IPFS isn't going to be affecting any time soon.
This is all a way away of course, none of that matters until IPFS is super popular & widely used, if ever.