Comment on Making a Simple Self-Hosted Photo Gallery With IPFS
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 months agoFeels like your services there just makes http links with extra steps?
Why would I want to use IPFS with those services instead of just online hosting?
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Because you won’t be paying for distribution.
If you are just hosting data for yourself, sure, go ahead and stick with a regular storage provider. IPFS is useful for the cases where there will be many people who will be accessing that data. The more popular a file is, the more nodes in the swarm will have it and the less it will be requested from your node specifically.
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 11 months ago
So like torrenting?
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
If you could get a torrent file to display an image in your web browser, yes.
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 11 months ago
So regular web browser can browse IPFS only systems?
Chreutz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, very much like torrents
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 months ago
If I share data on an online hosting I also doesn’t pay more for distribution? Or is this for some special cases? I havent checked for a long time but I had over 800Mb in like 2010 at OVH and I don’t think it has gone exacty down …
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
There is always a cap.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 months ago
I assure you, IPFS has a cap too.
The question is, it is higher?