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Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary - Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway

What's this blog post about?

Cloudflare introduces its IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) without needing special software. The gateway is hosted at cloudflare-ipfs.com and aims to serve as a platform for many new highly reliable and security-enhanced web applications. This marks the first product released under Cloudflare's Distributed Web Gateway project, which will eventually encompass all of their efforts to support new distributed web technologies. IPFS is a peer-to-peer file system composed of thousands of computers worldwide, each storing files on behalf of the network. Unlike traditional web systems, with IPFS anyone can cache and serve any content for free, making it more resilient and secure. Cloudflare's gateway allows users to access any of the billions of files stored on IPFS from their browser and build websites hosted entirely on IPFS while still being available at custom domain names.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Sept. 17, 2018

Author(s)
Andy Parker

Word count
2012

Language
English

Hacker News points
621


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