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by jimpick
2402 days ago
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IPFS works fine. I'm on the IPFS team and I use it everyday. Depending on the app, it may or may not be a good fit. The performance you get out of it depends a lot on what features you are using. There's a whole ecosystem of projects (eg. IPFS Companion, IPFS Desktop, IPFS Cluster) and 3rd-party services which are important to consider when deploying a production-ready app. There's a lot of work ongoing to solve some of the biggest pain points (eg. content discovery across NATs), so expect the performance profile to improve dramatically in the short term and for it to become an option for many more apps. |
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I run Eternum.io and IPFS has been such a pain that I am considering just shutting the service down. The node has been consuming so much RAM and CPU (even though it's behind a caching proxy and the gateway should get minimal traffic) that it was disrupting everything else on the server. The memory leaks have been off the charts for ages, so now I just restart the node every day.
I set up IPFS cluster on that and another machine with the intention of moving node to the second machine, I waited for weeks for files to be pinned between the two nodes but the queued count was going up and down.
In the end I set the pinning timeout to ten seconds and it finished faster, and still a bunch of files didn't manage to pin, even though the two nodes were directly connected (`ipfs swarm connect`). I shut the first node down anyway because I couldn't deal with it any more. At least now the rest of the stuff on the server isn't flapping every day.
And this is on top of the atrocious pin handling that requires you to have a connection open to the IPFS daemon when you want to pin a CID for the entire duration of the pin. I opened a ticket years ago to get a sort of download manager in the node so we could have pins happen asynchronously, but there has been no movement on that at all.
I'm glad it works well for you, but it has been nothing but pain for me. Hell, most of the time the gateway doesn't manage to discover files I have pinned on my local computer.
I really want something like IPFS to succeed, because it has immense potential to literally change the world, but I can't even recommend that people run a node locally because I know it's going to eat their battery and slow their computer down. I don't know why these problems haven't gone away after years of work and millions in funding.