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Which has a rather lengthy section explaining why it's currently a failed experiment: https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive/blob/master/...

(this doc is 5-6 years old though, and I'm not sure what may have changed since then)

In my own (toy-scale) IPFS experiments a couple years ago it has been rather usable, but also the software has been utterly insane for operators and users, and if I were IA I would only consider it if I budgeted for a from-scratch rewrite (of the stuff in use). Nearly uncontrollable and unintrospectable and high resource use for no apparent reason.



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