Cloudflare IPFS gateway goes premium, longetivity of free version?

Ecosystem
1

TL;DR: Cloudflare-ipfs seem to be going to a premium model. Not sure how that would work with current model of public gateway, which is still available for now.

Today I discovered on https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ page that IPFS and Ethereum gateway are now premium. There’s “free” version with 50GB/month traffic limit, as well as other plans.
There’s no mentions of /ipfs/ / /ipns/ URIs on the page anymore. I could not find any announces anywhere about changes in service model.

Right now my /ipfs/ links and my websites, which were registered using old panel available on cloudflare-ipfs.com website without any accounts or registration, still work. But for how long will that be?

Here’s a post on Cloudflare community forums:
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-ipfs-gateway-goes-premium-longetivity-of-free-version/596329

1 Like
2

The Web3 page to which cloudflare-ipfs.com redirects seem to be first introduced on 1 Aug 2023, according to Wayback Machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/web3/

3

Free version seems to work fine for me, I just setup a new one earlier this week to archive my website.

If you’re pushing more than 50GB/month of traffic, you probably want to be paying someone :slight_smile:

1 Like
4

Or run your own node

5

For sure, I meant in a non-home-user scenario, so “paying for a server” would be paying a bare metal / VPS / whatever host.

1 Like
6

They don’t advertise free version anywhere anymore. No /ipfs/ or /ipns/ links seen on the website. To me it looks like they’re switching from free-for-all public IPFS gateway model to a non-public one, where you need to register first, after which you’ll be able to reach only websites registered via Cloudflare panel, not any IPFS file.

7

Yep, that makes sense. The two sites I have running there are archives of websites accessed via ipns / dnslink.

Open gateways are…dangerous to run from a moderation perspective, and a risk for Cloudflare if they have to do moderation for all gateways (AFAIK there isn’t a per gateway moderation interface).

And I think Cloudflare, my team at Fission’s “beta” publishing platform, and Fleek are the only (?) three services that offer DNS <> IPFS automation?

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, I’m actively looking for more services like this.

2 Likes
8

Cloudflare might be going in the direction of Filebase: dedicated gateways for rental, and a public one that only serves files registered with them. :thinking: :tipping_hand_man:

Filebase might be adding it as part of their new IPNS features - but the docs are still laking infos on that.

9

Yeah not meaning the gateway part.

This all-in-one will be a gateway. Typically people will add / update DNS entries through an external provider. Cloudflare is a common freemium DNS provider with a good api in order to update DNS entries programmatically.

So, step one, use provider host name, eg MYAPP.fly.app — or just an IP address for like Digital Ocean.

Step two, add example.com → configure to point at all-in-one, with wildcard DNS for subdomains.

Cloudron has DNS Automation built in and would take care of this too.

So example.com/ipfs/bafy1234 redirects to bafy1234.example.com

Step three, add DNSLink TXT entries that get mapped to the gateway. I think as we covered elsewhere, step three is a ways off. I can file that as an issue and a write up.

2 Likes
10

No reply from Cloudflare.

11

According to Public Gateway Checker | IPFS the public gateways are still working as usual.

1 Like