I think IPFS is quite appealing due to its completely decentralized nature. But i'm not sure: what kind of use cases would it be useful for? Static content of what type do you serve via IPFS?
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@moddedbear only problem with using it for archival is that someone has to keep the content pinned. If there's nobody pinning the material, and nobody accesses it for a while, eventually it will age out. 路 2 years ago
But its slow speed does limit its usefulness unless you get tons of traffic. 路 2 years ago
@kocka_collector That was my experience too when I had some fun playing around with it a few days ago. I don't see it ever replacing the traditional client-server hosting model, but it's a great idea and it seems like it'll be really valuable for archival purposes. 路 2 years ago
Echoing other commenters, it's best as a distributed CDN. 路 2 years ago
Thank for your impressions. I think i just play around a bit with it. 路 2 years ago
I tried IPFS once. The idea seems nice enough, but it took massive amounts of space for larger files, RAM (which is expensive), and CPU power. The latter two may have been because I was using an electron-based client, but I don't remember there really being any other (sensible) options. 路 2 years ago
I use it to host files on my website from my computer without wasting space on my Neocities sites. I use it because from what I gather, it鈥檚 a way to self-host things in a way that you don鈥檛 need your PC on all of the time, since it will stay on other nodes for a while. Seems like a best of both worlds thing, though it can be really slow sometimes, 路 2 years ago