I'd like to image a world with globally addressable devices, maybe that's through NAT hole punching or just IPv6 where we can share everything, but the way things are now, I really struggle to determine what's the legitimate use case for this technology if we ignore the interest in decentralization for it's own sake and just consider engineering tradeoffs like cost for performance and end user experience/ergonomics.
As a storage layer, there are major challenges to adoption IPFS that have persisted almost a decade in to the project. At this level of partition comes at an incredible cost to availability, and from everything I read, the best practices for hosting user generating content still involve paying a service to "pin" your content to ensure it doesn't get dropped, so you still pay someone to host your data!
So what I'd like to know, is why would I want to use IPFS to host anything, when better, more performant and cost effective alternatives exist, and IPFS doesn't guarantee a file is actually hosted? Like, are there words you can say to your boss to argue for IPFS as a rational choice in systems architecture? What is the use case here?
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I'd like to image a world with globally addressable devices, maybe that's through NAT hole punching or just IPv6 where we can share everything, but the way things are now, I really struggle to determine what's the legitimate use case for this technology if we ignore the interest in decentralization for it's own sake and just consider engineering tradeoffs like cost for performance and end user experience/ergonomics.
As a storage layer, there are major challenges to adoption IPFS that have persisted almost a decade in to the project. At this level of partition comes at an incredible cost to availability, and from everything I read, the best practices for hosting user generating content still involve paying a service to "pin" your content to ensure it doesn't get dropped, so you still pay someone to host your data!
So what I'd like to know, is why would I want to use IPFS to host anything, when better, more performant and cost effective alternatives exist, and IPFS doesn't guarantee a file is actually hosted? Like, are there words you can say to your boss to argue for IPFS as a rational choice in systems architecture? What is the use case here?