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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by zozbot234 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:52PM (#21403825)
IPFS solves this. You only need to host an index of the content, plus the "seed" copy, for anyone else to download and mirror as they please.
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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by momentoftop on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:06PM (#21405024)
It solves it so long as you are happy to upload several gigabytes a day seeding nothing just to keep up with DHT chatter:

https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3429

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by solarkraft on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:00PM (#21403892)
I'm guessing this is being downvoted because after all, for unpopular stuff, you're still going to be the one hosting your content.
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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by aaronax on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:25PM (#21404831)
If it is unpopular, then the resources required to host the content are manageable.

If it is popular, the IPFS users seed it to each other so your load is still manageable.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by solarkraft on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:35AM (#21409244)
Good point!
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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by tryptophan on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:32PM (#21404860)
But wouldn't it solve the problem of your server exploding during your sites 15 minutes of fame? So many users at once could use the P2P of IPFS and take load off the server.
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