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> making the hosting decentralized > I'm not sure what your issue [is] with ipfs IPFS is cool. I played around with it a few years ago. I even had a similar i
by dijksterhuis 3y ago
> making the hosting decentralized
> I'm not sure what your issue [is] with ipfs
IPFS is cool. I played around with it a few years ago. I even had a similar idea during my masters (and then discovered IPFS).
Decentralization is my issue here -- it's not necessary and it would be more of a blocker than a solution.
- chaxor 3y agoI'm not sure I understand? If you want to host the data on Dropbox, Dropbox becomes a part of the network and is hosted by the community and Dropbox or whatever service you like. The problem is that it is very prohibitive to use services like AWS. For instance, downloading all of Arxiv.org from AWS is around $600 last time I checked. Not every student trying to run an experiment is going to have $600 laying around to run the experiment. But with torrent/ipfs it would be free to download. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.