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Re:ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and ... by akerro on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:06AM (#15384328)
Last time I used that project I was trying to migrate my wordpress to zeroNet and I failed because my wp-content/images is over 3Gb and ZeroNet website is (was?) limited to 100Mb. Has this changed, are they tools that migrate images to separate addresses and link them correctly in html files?
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Re:ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and ... by lkjhgfdsa57 on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:08PM (#15389279)
ZeroNet is better at dealing with such sites now but it's still problematic when a site grows past a threshold where requestors need to be prompted to increase the size. Nodes that are just seeding don't automatically seed the changed site since they don't respond to the size change request.

One way of dealing with it is to make the images "Optional content". This means they are not sent to requestors of the site immediately - they are requested only when specifically wanted. Users can choose to seed optional files - in which case they'll mirror them all - or they only seed the ones they've looked at. Optional files don't count towards site size limits.

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Re:ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and ... by mtgx on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:16AM (#15384411)
Shouldn't they combine it with IPFS for static content storage then? Or does IPFS have the same limitation?
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Re:ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and ... by lgierth on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:42AM (#15384665)
There's no such limitation in IPFS -- currently the largest known dataset is about 3.8 TB, a mirror of https://cdn.media.ccc.de
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Re:ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and ... by lkjhgfdsa57 on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:09PM (#15389285)
I think IPFS would make a good backing store for ZeroNet. Rather than storing files on the filesystem of the user they could be stored in IPFS.
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Re:ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and ... by ukd1 on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:09AM (#15384350)
No, and the default limit is 10mb. Your site can request more though and or you can use zerocdn?
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