Yeah me too. I am currently working on a āfriend-to-friendā overlay network of IPFS. Basically you select IPFS nodes as āfriendsā and then you can host each othersā data, if the other agrees. Now it isnāt a matter of eliminating trust entirely from the equation using a blockhain (like Filecoin) but simply a matter of trusting your friends with your data (well Iāll admit that not a lot of people have friends who are also into IPFSā¦)
Any idea of how much storage space they provide?
Yes it is, with touthands of petabytes of storage available against payment.
Thousands of petabytes? Where / how?
Genuinely curious!!
I donāt think thereās anything keeping you from spinning up file coin nodes on current cloud providers, AWS, Azure, etc. so I donāt think capacity should be a problem. The question is it competitively priced and are people willing to pay for the additional flexibility it provides above what youād get with S3.
Ah! I see, I misinterpreted Akitaās remark - I thought they meant thousands of petabytes of IPFS storage (since that what this thread was discussing), not just storage for payment in general. Thanks for helping me catch that!
Yeah, I meant Filecoin Storage. The capacity is curently 13 000 petabyte and counting (Filfox - Filecoin explorer).
Space actually used by clients is 34 Petabytes (https://storage.filecoin.io/)
Price is negligeable for infrequent access (1 cent/Gb/month, see https://file.app/)
Thanks for clarifying - I must say, Iām impressed that there is so much IPFS storage available!
So when we use some of these āfreeā services, like Fleek, for example - are they picking up the tab, because Iām not.