Re:Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
by TekMol on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:44AM
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If it uses IPFS as a storage backend, then why is it faster to watch the video on the website then via IPFS as hobofan did? This seems to be an indication they store that data on a server all the time.
Re:Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
by diggan on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:21AM
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By default, when making requests to the HTTP gateway, it'll cache the content requested until a GC runs. So it's possible that the local node you're using, have not seen the content before so it needs to go out and fetch it while the gateway d.tube uses, already has the content fetched and only needs to serve it.
Of course, the second time you load the content (or if another node on your local network already loaded it) via a local node, it'll be much faster than the public gateway d.tube is running.
Disclaimer: I work for Protocol Labs specifically on IPFS.
Re:Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
by arghwhat on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:48PM
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Furthermore, being behind a CDN, the CDN might be caching some resources at their edges for additional performance improvement.
(I believe someone stated DTube was running behind a CDN.)
However, until DTube release a client so that the network can build, it's just a centralized video platform using IPFS and STEEM as storage backends. Unless clients are made available, it might as well use S3 and Postgres.