>Old websites will simply vanish, even ones that are otherwise maintained on the current web.
Not really. Today, a website needs to be maintained by the original host or it goes away. If IPFS were used, the same site would need to be hosted by the original host or any other interested party.
If absolutely nobody else is interested enough to host it, the original host can continue to do so, and the site would be in the same situation as today's sites: hosted by one node.
>In particular, applications like this post itself, that are part backup part publishing, aren't great applications of IPFS because your images are just hosted off your home internet connection. Power outage? No data. ISP issue? No data. Hardware failure? Hope you had a real backup. Basically, why would I choose IPFS, which is in this case equivalent to self hosting, over flickr, instagram, etc?
While I haven't looked at the source code, I'm fairly certain ipfs.pics is uploading the photos to their servers as well. It's effectively a Flickr-type site using IPFS as the backend, with the added benefit that the photos may still be available somewhere else if their servers disappear.
Not really. Today, a website needs to be maintained by the original host or it goes away. If IPFS were used, the same site would need to be hosted by the original host or any other interested party.
If absolutely nobody else is interested enough to host it, the original host can continue to do so, and the site would be in the same situation as today's sites: hosted by one node.
>In particular, applications like this post itself, that are part backup part publishing, aren't great applications of IPFS because your images are just hosted off your home internet connection. Power outage? No data. ISP issue? No data. Hardware failure? Hope you had a real backup. Basically, why would I choose IPFS, which is in this case equivalent to self hosting, over flickr, instagram, etc?
While I haven't looked at the source code, I'm fairly certain ipfs.pics is uploading the photos to their servers as well. It's effectively a Flickr-type site using IPFS as the backend, with the added benefit that the photos may still be available somewhere else if their servers disappear.