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IPFS builds on the idea that people will share your data benevolent right?

Any idea how much space there is to use?

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the idea that people will share your data benevolent right?

Not necessarily. There are a good number of providers (e.g, Pinata, Infura) of “Pinning services”, which will host the data that you want to make sure it’s always available. At first sight, they might seem more expensive than just using something like S3, but if you consider that there is no egress costs for files on IPFS then it might end up a lot cheaper to host content there.

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If cost is a reason for concern, then the 5c/GB storage and 8c/GB egress on Pinata isn’t exactly cheaper than S3’s 2.7c/GB storage and 9c/GB egress. You can get much better mileage with something like Backblaze B2 0.6c/GB storage free egress, and couple with CloudFlare or other CDN for much lower egress (often free).

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Sure there will be cheaper alternatives (Storj is $0.04 GB stored + $0.007 GB egress), but with IPFS you can e.g, seed from your own home server and not becoming a bottleneck.

Feels 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?

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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.

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So like torrenting?

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Yes, very much like torrents

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If you could get a torrent file to display an image in your web browser, yes.

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So regular web browser can browse IPFS only systems?

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Yes. Brave has it built-in. Others can do it through an extension.

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

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Cool. :)

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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/s in like 2010 at OVH and I don’t think it has gone exacty down …

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There is always a cap.

I assure you, IPFS has a cap too.

The question is, it is higher?

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“IPFS” can not have a cap, because IPFS is not a service provider. IPFS is a protocol.

Fair enough.

So the IPFS network has a cap. Like OVH doesn’t have a cap as it’s a company, but their network does.

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Yes. That’s also how torrents work, and they allow anyone to download any movie in the world. Html files are small, you don’t need to share much

So IPFS is for large files? Like I can put up a 1TB file like a torrent?

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Well it’s designed for the web so it’s better at handling relatively small files. But yeah, it would work

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