Comment on Making a Simple Self-Hosted Photo Gallery With IPFS

• Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool. :)

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• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s cool, still can’t see why I wouldn’t use http(s) though that is cheaper and simpler?

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Cheaper and simpler” only if you are comparing with sites hosted on some big cloud provider. Consider the case where you don’t want or can’t rely on, e.g, Cloudflare or AwS and ask yourself how you would serve lots of static data without worrying about bandwidth or getting DDOS.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OVH, Mega, insert lots and lots of other providers here. They probably can handle DDOS etc good enough.

      I mean is it only for some niche usage (which is totally okay and fine) like serving lots of static data from lesser unknown providers then?

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are two aspects you are ihnoring here:

        • with IPFS you can do it from your own computer

        • it is content addressable, files are addressed by their hash, which means you can have a system, e.g, different Lemmy instance admins can share a IPFS server and it gets automatically deduplicated, or you can have something like trustless package managers that run without the need of a central authority.

        Might not be useful for you, but it should be useful for a lot of people.

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