CloudFlare Just Launched Its IPFS Gateway, And Why I Think This Is Important
One of the biggest internet DNS processors, CloudFlare, announced in a blog post they are launching their IPFS gateway. Before diving too deep into the consequences of this, let's pause for a moment, to understand who are the actors here.
CloudFlare is much more than an DNS processor, it's a CDN and it also features a (very) resilient DDoS protection layer. That's the reason you see on many exchanges a message like: "Checking your browser before redirecting you to exchange.com. DDoS protection by CloudFlare, Ray Id: whatever". In other words, CloudFlare is a big shark.
IPFS stands for Inter-Planetary File System, and it's a decentralized storage system, very similar with a blockchain (it uses cryptography heavily and it's quite resilient). There are more technical details in the blog post linked above, but for now just keep in mind that IPFS was made by the same guy who launched a Proof of Storage token based on it, namely Filecoin.
As far as I know, there's no direct link between Filecoin, which uses a different backend and IPFS, which is more or less rogue (read: decentralized), but the fact that such a big player (some could argue CloudFlare is the biggest actor in that niche) is interested in these technologies is a very strong adoption signal.
Yesterday I wrote about cross-border blockchain-based mobile payment networks and now comes CloudFlare with this piece of news.
Again, this is not a strong speculative indicator, it didn't do anything to the markets (if anything, Bitcoin lost $200), but it's a more organic indication of the unstoppable adoption of decentralized solutions.
I'm personally happy with this unfolding, which is more silent, less spectacular but far more impactful than a BTC bull trend, which will probably do nothing than snowball into another big bubble, letting a lot of people on the sides, because they lost their life savings in the process. It's way better for the industry (and, yes, in the long run for the crypto assets price) to just adopt more and more use cases for already working blockchain technologies.
All in all, very good news.
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On days like this we need all the good news we can get
yeah for reals, i saw that and was like, cloudflare knows what's up, the fact that they are realising a crypto based tech each day for the rest of the week (i believe that is what i saw) suggests to me they are wanting to be part of the infrastructure that evolves with these new techs. that's a no-brainer for them and a reinforcement for us the tsunami wave adopters.
More and more decentralized solutions will keep being adopted and eventually mainstream. Crypto is the future
I think this starts to prove the theory that the technology will definitely be a winner. Just at this stage its hard to tell what companies and for that matter currencies will be winners. Good for techies but hard for investors to figure out :)
Oh my, this is my first time of knowing the full meaning of IPFS, I knew the word from busy.org, it upload pictures with that.
Good news for the adoption.
Oh yes, Cloudflare is a pretty important company to have on board. Anything that starts to get a decent amount of traffic is eventually going to need the services of Cloudflare or a similar company to help mitigate attacks and downtime. The fact that they consider it serious enough to warrant their attention is good news, not spectacular (like you said) but one of the boring infrastructure developments that are essential.
Not even kidding: IPFS was the indirect reason I joined Steem.
I wanted to see some large-scale adoption so when I've heard about DTube, it was an instant decision.
That shit needs worldwide adoption.
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One of the things that bothers me the most about @busy is that it seems that they are hardcoding their own server provided IPFS links to images. (Correct me if I am wrong.) While it works well, what happens if the busy IPFS node goes down?
Furthermore, in the past I have experimented with Video Streaming over IPFS, and having a cloudflare link to the media asset would have definitely helped it resolve. However, I am interested in knowing about the durability of these links - as in what happens at the high-water mark of GC?
I am also interested in seeing some REAL benchmarks!
The inner workings of IPFS (including your question about "what happens if...") are very well explained in the article linked.
TLDR -> a content piece, identified by a unique hash, like an image or video, may be stored by multiple hosts.
Yes this is the important . Really your update news is most helpful to all friend . Thanks for sharing @dragosroua
yes sir ddos protection is necessary these days ... And yes i have seen it many times checking for robot ...