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Use public gateway for small files #17

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hackergrrl opened this issue Jan 28, 2016 · 3 comments
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Use public gateway for small files #17

hackergrrl opened this issue Jan 28, 2016 · 3 comments

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To offset the cost of starting up a new ephemeral node (high), first ping a public gateway (e.g. ipfs.io) to get the size of the requested object. If it's over some size (recursively), start up the node. Otherwise perform a GET over the gateway (and validate the hash).

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ghost commented Jan 28, 2016

We'll soon-ish have geo-aware DNS which will make this even more useful

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@lgierth: is there a tracking issue for this somewhere?

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ghost commented Feb 6, 2016

@noffle just made one: ipfs/infra#153

I haven't looked into it at all yet, feel free if you want to :)

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