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Is this meant to be decentralized to avoid shutdown? Where is the engine itself hosted? Ens is just a naming system and ipfs is just a file address system right
by dumbfounder 3y ago
Is this meant to be decentralized to avoid shutdown? Where is the engine itself hosted? Ens is just a naming system and ipfs is just a file address system right? So the engine itself still needs to be hosted somewhere? Would like to hear more about it, but no info available on the site.
- jerry374 3y agoActually the engine itself is also decentralized, there are multiple nodes running the search index over the network. There will be more docs coming out.
- dumbfounder 3y agoHow is it decentralized? Are you using Filecoin VM? Doing your own thing?
- jerry374 3y agoThe index files are stored on Filecoin, and there are multiple nodes loading those index files and serving queries.
- dumbfounder 3y agoMultiple nodes that you run? What's the incentive for others to run them?
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- ploum 3y agoThat’s the very goal of IPFS: hosting is distributed. Every node taking part in the IPFS network may or may not have pieces of this particular website. Eth.link seems to be a centralized proxy enabling you to access that without an IPFS/EthDNS browser. It should also be noted that what is hosted is a simple list of hashes with a name (and a size). The search engine is trivially looking through the name and displaying matching hashes. Then, your bittorrent client try to find any torrent matching the hash (this is the magnet protocol). So, yeah, you download something from nowhere. This is the real "cloud" we have been expecting for the last 20 years ;-)
- dumbfounder 3y agoIPFS only serves files, there is no server side compute. You can’t just scan ipfs like a database so there needs to be some other tech used for the engine itself, as OP indicates.
- ploum 3y agoyeah, indeed, my bad.