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> I pinned content from my own server and played forever with settings and definitions, but couldn’t get the content to be available everywhere.

> The blog you’re reading now is built with Jekyll and is hosted on my own 10$ server.

> don’t get me wrong, I’m still an IPFS fanboy.

...how could you still be a fanboy? When IPFS cannot fulfill even the most basic function of globally serving static content, why does it deserve anyone's interest? It's not even new or cutting edge at this point. After 8 years of development how can the most basic functionality still not work for even an expert?

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It worked fine before for many years when it was slightly less popular.

They're having growing pains due to scalability problems and some libraries, like Helia (the JS library of IPFS), being new. I guess I'm also quite stubborn in wanting to do it my way, without the aid of any services, and for the content I pin to be available in all places, including Helia in the browser.

The official IPFS client in Go has always been very, very hungry for resources. At some point it crashed because it needed to many file descriptors if it ran for too long. Even for a simple static site with infrequent update it needed some maintenance. But even if one was willing to put the effort in, it was not actually rewarded, because if your server were you pin your website is offline, the truth is that your site is offline too, so what's the point?

It's working fabulously for hosting phishing websites frontend by the popular IPFS gateway providers like Cloudflare, so at least there's that...

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What on earth are you talking about? IPFS has nothing to do with "coins", it's a distributed data management system. You can use IPFS for finance in the same way you can use a database for finance. You can also use IPFS for literally anything else that falls in the "data that you want other people to be able to access" category.

But it seems associated with blockchain and something named filecoin?

There goes all credibility.

Yeah we've kind of been using the block chain since the end of the 15th century. Something using public "double" book keeping to ensure data integrity across a network (digital or otherwise) doesn't magically make that data a currency just because some Japanese guy's pet project became too popular for its own good =)

Oh. Are you sure there aren't stone tables with block chain?

oh shit, I replied to the wrong comment.

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