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Tutorial on hosting an IPFS website rather than HTTP #235

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AndrewBHolder opened this issue Sep 5, 2022 · 2 comments
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Tutorial on hosting an IPFS website rather than HTTP #235

AndrewBHolder opened this issue Sep 5, 2022 · 2 comments

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@AndrewBHolder
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IPFS is supposed to be an upgrade to the HTTP protocol that allows for more security against DDOSing and censorship by assigning every file a global hash than anyone can seed. It is currently only built into the Brave browser natively. You just type ipfs:// or ipns:// before your URL. Other browsers have companion apps, but Brave appears to be the easiest so far to work with IPFS.

I think this would be interesting to look into seeing as Luke is strongly anti-Cloudflare and Cloudflare reared its ugly head yet again this week by removing that controversial Kiwifarms website from their service, opening them up to DDOS attacks. After Cloudflare banned them, their Russian competitor DDOS-Guard also denied them service after only two days, effectively banning them from the Internet.

I think IPFS would be a welcome addition on Landchad and fits in with its ethos. I don't see any other real alternatives to guarding against DDOS attacks aimed at little guys.

@LukeSmithxyz
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I don't know anything about setting it up. If someone wants to add it, obviously that's great.

@tfasano1
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IPFS is not an ideal replacement for HTTP, because it does not offer encryption or authentication. For a P2P Internet, I'd recommend looking at https://hypercore-protocol.org

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