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by slacka 2341 days ago
I found that too as the article linked raised more questions that it answered. I was like "how can I be reading this if it's not using DNS?" And from the link this explanation:

> It updates a dnslink pointer at Cloudflare, which allows Cloudflare's DNS to direct teetotality.blog HTTP traffic to the correct IPFS hash address via their IPFS Gateway. So even though you've (probably) reached this page through a regular old HTTP link that uses the teetotality.blog host name, there is in fact no server with that name - the content is stored on various IPFS nodes, including but not limited to Cloudflare's edge caches.
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thenewnewguy 2341 days ago
The blog is hosted on IPFS. To allow normal web browsers without IPFS support to view the website they use Cloudflare's IPFS gateway, which is a service that serves content from IPFS over normal HTTP.
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netfl0 2341 days ago
I’d be a bit more precise. The blog is hosted by cloudflare. IPFS hosts all the versions of the blog, none of which are canonical.
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