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> suddenly all of that traffic is hitting nodes with far fewer resources. One of the points of IPFS (and bittorrent before it) is that this is not a problem; e
by a1369209993 5y ago
> suddenly all of that traffic is hitting nodes with far fewer resources.
One of the points of IPFS (and bittorrent before it) is that this is not a problem; each node that downloads the data also uploads it to other nodes, so having lots of traffic actually makes it easier to serve something (indeed, if it was already widely seeded by Google's mirror, there wouldn't be any sudden traffic).
- zerocrates 5y agoI'm not particularly familiar with IPFS: does it have some solution for free-riding? BitTorrent as many have noted is great for popular things, even not-particularly-popular things, but absent incentives to continue seeding (i.e. private trackers' ratio requirements) even once-popular things easily become inaccessible as the majority of peers don't seed for long, or at all. I guess what I don't quite is what IPFS adds vs. say, a trackerless BitTorrent magnet link that uses DHT? Or is it really just a slight iteration/improvement on that system?
- vmception 5y agoNo it doesn’t If nobody pins a link it disappears but there is no strong incentive it just rides on abundant space and bandwidth and wealthy Gen Xers that want to be a part of something The same group released filecoin which experiments with digital asset incentives.. and venture capital Inconclusive results
- a1369209993 5y ago> I guess what I don't quite is what IPFS adds vs. say, a trackerless BitTorrent magnet link that uses DHT? Beats me! I think there might be support for finding new versions of things, but I'm not sure about the details or how it prevents authors from memory-holing stuff by saying "The new version is $(cat /dev/null), bye!".
- vmception 5y agoBittorrent use breaks Tor, IPFS download does not. so that's one advantage to one audience