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The concept of "being down" doesn't really apply to protocols. IPFS/BitTorrent never being down is a bit like saying that TCP/HTTP has never been down. Individu
by capableweb 4y ago
The concept of "being down" doesn't really apply to protocols. IPFS/BitTorrent never being down is a bit like saying that TCP/HTTP has never been down. Individual servers/client can have connection issues, but obviously won't affect clients not connected to those, and is not because of the protocols themselves.
- woojoo666 4y agoBut the infrastructures those protocols provide (the IPFS network, torrent swarms) can be an alternative to Cloudflare. Which is why I brought it up
- softawre 4y agoNot to state the obvious, but... if a big centralized company built a Cloudflare for IPFS to make it easy for the masses to adopt, that company could go down just as easy as Cloudflare.
- woojoo666 4y agoHow so? Somebody links to a webpage, decentralized resolver converts it to an IPFS hash, which the client queries for any providers of that hash, and retrieves directly from them. No central authority necessary