Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by styfle 2836 days ago
You can use any gateway with your custom domain name? Potentially you could but I don't know of any that let you do this.

My impression of the public gateways was that the end user would need to know the content hash of your website which makes for a poor user experience.

This announcement claims the end user just uses the website as they normally would by visiting example.com but behind the scenes there is no central web server because the content is pulled from IPFS.

DNS was the missing piece :)

https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gatew...
2 comments
lgierth 2836 days ago
You can use custom domains with any go-ipfs gateway, it'll transparently turn `Host: example.com` into `/ipns/example.com`.

What Cloudflare adds to the mix is their infrastructure for automatic TLS certs.

link
marius_k 2836 days ago
I was running my own website with my own domain on ipfs quite successfully for few months. And I have configured cloudflare just to have a green https icon.

The only problem is that I have to visit my website once in a while, otherwise the content is deleted on the gateway.

link