Re:Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
by lambdaba on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:35AM
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Could you elaborate on how you use IPFS? How fast is it? Do you use use a pinning service?
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Re:Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
by vmception on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:46AM
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I upload static assets to IPFS and add those static links to my project instead of having an "assets" folder.
IPFS is fast enough, I had these concerns too so I use a gateway for links as some of them cache files on their own CDN, for free.
Yes, I use a pinning service, I was extremely hesitant as many of them are just SaaS hosting like Pinata is and charge by bandwidth used, but there are free ones like https://web3.storage which for some reason is combining Filecoin and IPFS together for each upload and liveness/pinning.
Ironically, Pinata also acts as a gateway and can then be used for free if you want. But there are other gateways. Cloudfront has one but what it decides to cache is strange.