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by ComputerGuru 3067 days ago
I mean, your status page itself may be on ipfs but since ipfs isn’t natively supported as a browser protocol, your “decentralization” fails since you’ll likely need to host the http <—-> ipfs gateway somewhere. Might as well stick your status page on a couple of vps (literally just two on two different continents) and round robin them.
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Firefox has already whitelisted the IPFS protocol so that extensions can provide implementations. It won't be long before this can be decentralized.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefo...

The gotcha there is that you can use multiple gateways to access you page. So you are right, you need to have a http <--> ipfs but you can have many of then and anyone hosting an IPFS node can have a copy of your page and serve it.