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> just stick your content on a static host and you're done 1 (relatively small) advantage is not needing to control the server, just the domain. The server the
by karmanyaahm 5y ago
> just stick your content on a static host and you're done
1 (relatively small) advantage is not needing to control the server, just the domain. The server then polls IPNS and updates things with the latest stuff.
2 There's the standardized (and perhaps more meaningful) cache busting aspect for assets. i.e. the IPFS Companion browser extension takes all /ipfs/<CID>/filename.ext urls and sends them from the local datastore instead of making requests. This way, assets aren't requested from a remote each time when they're the same on multiple websites. This helps since CDN's don't use common caches anymore. Though, it might come with the same privacy risks.
https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/say-goodbye-to-resource-caching-across-sites-and-domains/ https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/say-goodbye-to-resource-ca...
> it's hard to embed and resource-hungry, which hampers adoption
yes.