It can be an essential component, but for on-site replication you need to coordinate your caches to make the most of your available capacity. There're efforts t

It can be an essential component, but for on-site replication you need to coordinate your caches to make the most of your available capacity. There're efforts to implement this on top IPFS to have mutually trusted nodes elect a leader deciding who should pin what to ensure you keep enough intact copies of everything in the distributed cache, but like so many things IPFS it started out interesting, died from feature creep and "visions" instead of working code.