ipfs

Interested to hear thoughts from ipfs-heads.

Toying with a project idea for decentralising public domain media and documents to preserve and protect historical information.

However the data is so vast that renting space from ipfs services would be extortionate.

Is the sensible way forward to self-host on hardware?

Here’s a guide @stevedylandev.eth wrote on self hosting via a raspberry pi.

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Here’s a guide @stevedylandev.eth wrote on self hosting via a raspberry pi. https://www.pinata.cloud/blog/how-to-run-ipfs-on-a-raspberry-pi

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Yeah this would be true for traditional storage as well. Unfortunately there are real costs associated with data storage whether it’s self hosted or through a service 😕

I fear that with thousands of petabytes to be migrated to decentralised storage, it would take hundreds of thousands to build machines capable of hosting such file sizes, let alone split them across multiple devices for further decentralisation.

Unfortunately it seems like a money pit.