Use public gateway for small files

Question

Use public gateway for small files

Opened this issue 9 years ago · 3 comments

To offset the cost of starting up a new ephemeral node (high), first ping a public gateway (e.g. ipfs.io) to get the size of the requested object. If it's over some size (recursively), start up the node. Otherwise perform a GET over the gateway (and validate the hash).

Answer 1 · 2016-01-28T22:20:28.000Z

We'll soon-ish have geo-aware DNS which will make this even more useful

Answer 2 · 2016-02-06T00:39:35.000Z

@lgierth: is there a tracking issue for this somewhere?

Answer 3 · 2016-02-06T00:48:30.000Z

@noffle just made one: ipfs/infra#153

I haven't looked into it at all yet, feel free if you want to :)