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The speed is only an issue if you are storing all of your data in a decentralised network, but do you need to? What you want to persist is your identity, but you perhaps you don't need to replicate your data on other people's servers, for an indeterminate period of time. Furthermore, IPFS relies on DHT protocols which have shown to have scaliability issues.

At Blockstack, the name persists via the blockchain, which can be slow, but is only an initial barrier on identity creation. After that, you own your own data via gaia hub, which can be stored wherever you like, for example behind an LB with fast i/o on Digital Ocean. You just run docker-compose up on our master on an image of choice on digital ocean for example: https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html

We are looking to automate deployments for user friendly rollouts but I strongly recommend checking out gaia. Gaia is not dependent on the blockchain, and can still be persisted or duplicated via networks like IPFS is someone so chose to. We have an IPFS driver request in and are looking to get to it with some eng cycles.