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by tscs37 3188 days ago
>since IPFS is essentially a worldwide CDN for static files.(Sorry: an inter-planetary one.)

Sorry but IPFS is interplanetary in the same way a Boeing 747 is capable of orbital flight.

Last I checked IPFS will not tolerate minute long latencies and requires a bandwidth above several kilobits per second which would immediately disqualify it for anything farther than the moon.

And I'm not sure it would work on the moon since that is a 2 second latency and I had issues with it when I used it on a mobile phone network with 800ms latency.

>I recently did this. It really is one-click hosting!

Except it isn't hosted unless atleast one person keeps a copy online, otherwise it goes offline or you pay money to some hoster or filecoin (not that I think that filecoin isn't a huge scam at this point)

>- Didn't you just read the web is about to go permanent? Do you really want to be archived for all history as one more nay-sayer? ;)

Since the number of people interested in the content of this page is declining with every decade passing, I think I'll make a bet it'll be no longer available on an IPFS after a mere two decades.
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lgierth 3188 days ago
> Last I checked IPFS will not tolerate minute long latencies and requires a bandwidth above several kilobits per second which would immediately disqualify it for anything farther than the moon. > >And I'm not sure it would work on the moon since that is a 2 second latency and I had issues with it when I used it on a mobile phone network with 800ms latency.

Fair points :) We'll be addressing this in the coming months with increased work on the network stack (libp2p).

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noam87 3188 days ago
> Last I checked IPFS will not tolerate minute long latencies and requires a bandwidth above several kilobits per second. [...] It isn't hosted unless atleast one person keeps a copy online.

And the vacuum tubes in my Colossus might overheat at that rate too! -- Damn, you're right, we're just not smart enough to solve those problems.

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> Does sarcasm prove your point?

Fair enough, sarcastic Parthian shot removed. I get overexcited sometimes.

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tscs37 3188 days ago
>And the vacuum tubes in my Colossus might overheat at that rate too! -- Damn, you're right, we're just not smart enough to solve those problems.

I was merely pointing out that it's not correct to call something interplanetary if it's not. It's mostly false advertising.

>Are those the ones that go whoosh?

Does sarcasm prove your point?

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