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 …
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rglullis@communick.news 11 months agoBecause 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.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 months ago
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?
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
“IPFS” can not have a cap, because IPFS is not a service provider. IPFS is a protocol.
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?
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Yes. Brave has it built-in. Others can do it through an extension.
Chreutz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, very much like torrents