[dannyobrien]

Note that the Filecoin network (which was designed to be the incentive layer for IPFS storage) has been operational for some time. If you look at the current status at https://file.app/ , you can see that storage costs there are extremely low for large amounts of data. If you can get your data verified as open, public data by applying for datacap with a Filecoin+ notary, it's currently free. See https://plus.fil.org/ (you can get 32GB of free datacap to play with just for having a github account).

If you want to use the Filecoin network as a "provider of last resort" for IPFS data, there's https://estuary.tech which will mark your data as verified, sort out the deals with storage providers, and then mirror it to IPFS.

There's also third-party tools like https://fission.codes/ , https://docs.textile.io/powergate/ , https://web3.storage/ and https://www.pinata.cloud/ for making this easier.

(Disclosure: I work at the Filecoin Foundation.)

[nl]

> If you look at the current status at https://file.app/ , you can see that storage costs there are extremely low for large amounts of data.

We were looking at this at work the other day.

We noticed the storage price vs S3 saying "0.03% the cost of Amazon S3" and then someone (who's been trying to get adequate performance out of IPFS for a while) said "0.03% of the price, and even lower performance".