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by Offpics 1832 days ago
Can someone ELI5 how decentralized websites work and how much it costs or provide a link to some article?
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Regular websites: DNS + server Decentralized websites: decentralized name service + decentralized storage.

How much it costs? Depends on how you "keep it alive" in the network. There always needs to be at least one person with a copy of the website. If it's you, it's for free - but you can pay a service.

Here's an introduction article: https://almonit.club/blog/2020-05-21/Introduction_to_Dwebsit...