IPFS-Deploy

Great job, simple and easy, as a tool should be. I'm definitely gonna use it.

If you pin to IPFS and then use a public http gateway like https://cloudflare-ipfs.com, which caches and distributes via their CDN, you'll have a good CDN alternative. If you…

Yes, definitely. I mean, you certainly get better bandwidth and latency depending on popularity and geographic diversity of seeders, and there are even youtube-alternative…

In torrent when you download something you also announce yourself as a seeder. In ipfs afaik you have to explicitly pin something in order for your peer to be announced as a…

Afaik. in the pinning method this tool uses, it costs nothing. But you can't be sure that it will really be always live (it depends on the good heart of the pinning service you…

With IPFS what are the costs to keep your site live?

Thank you! It makes me very happy to hear that. Feel free to ping me if you run into any trouble (even if it's just a non-showstopper like some unnecessary friction or papercut.)…

Does it make sense to add support for Signed HTTP Exchanges (SXG) to this? https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/issues/121

Good idea! I've been following Web Packaging from a distance, so would need to do some research, but from the looks of it, ipfs-deploy could automate packaging up a directory…

Wow, that was really fast, congrats! I'd love to have Eternum support on ipfs-deploy, btw. Please let me know if you'd like to submit a PR and need help.

That'd be great! What sort of integration are you thinking? My JS is terrible but pinning stuff on Eternum is a simple HTTP call.

Is it possible to update a website hosted on IPFS and push those changes to all IPFS users? The equivalent on AWS Cloudfront would be breaking the cache, so all users would see…

Not an expert, but: IPFS is p2p, but all the content is accessed only by a hash, so the same address always refers to the same version; when you update the site, you're actually…

With IPFS what are the costs to keep your site live?

It is like torrent, so you need to have a seeder node all the time - it is called “pinning” in IPFS. There is a number of services, the price seems to be around $0.3/(gb*month)

So what stops me from abusing Cloudflare's gateway as a free CDN for petabytes of traffic? There has to be a catch? Edit: found it.…

Yep. That is the price practiced by Pinata[1] after 1GB, and by Eternum[2] at the outset (no free tier). [1]: https://pinata.cloud/ [2]: https://www.eternum.io/

Is it possible to update a website hosted on IPFS and push those changes to all IPFS users? The equivalent on AWS Cloudfront would be breaking the cache, so all users would see…