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There's a comparable stack using Skynet and HNS. HNS is a lot cheaper than Ethereum because it's a blockchain dedicated to domains, you aren't competing with things like yield farming or crypto kitties for block space. If fees are high, it's because a lot of people are buying names.

Skynet is different from IPFS in that everything is hosted by paid servers, and it uses direct routing instead of a DHT, so you get a lot better latency. Skynet's IPNS equivalent (called SkyDB) is also a lot faster, p999 on the order of 200ms to update something.

The other nice thing about Skynet is it's all http accessible. Anyone can run their own Skynet portal, and that portal by default serves over http. You can grab any content from any Skynet portal, and there's even an upgrade in development that will automatically find alternate portals for you if requests fail.