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What is IPFSGate.com

IPFSGate.com is an advanced public IPFS gateway, IPFS link storage and IPFS network web hosting provider. You can use the gateway to access the IPFS content directly through your web browser without installation of any other software or plugins. You are allowed to browse any IPFS content via our default gateway or you can select from many 3^rd party gateways. Those of you who use Tor Browser for a better anonymity can take advantage our Onion Gateway:

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What is IPFS network and DWeb

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data (files, images, videos, websites) in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting all computing devices. IPFS allows users to not only receive but even host content. As opposed to a centrally located servers, IPFS is built around a decentralized and distributed system (DWeb) of user-operators who hold a portion of the overall data, creating a resilient system of file storage and sharing. Any user in the network can serve a file by its content address, and other peers in the network can find and request that content from any node who has it using a distributed hash table (DHT).

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IPFS

IPNS

DNSLink

DWeb

P2P

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Pinning

ENS

Content identifier

Content addressing

Blockchain

Filecoin

Namecoin

Brave browser

Tor browser

IPFS = content decentralization

Today's web is centralized, which means that your web browser (HTTP protocol respectively) downloads files from one computer (server) at a time instead of getting pieces from multiple computers simultaneously. IPFS efficiently solves this problem by content distribution and decentralization, so once the content is requested by your computer, it can be easily downloaded from any source (node) which share it at that time.

IPFS = content is censorship-resistant

IPFS brings great opportunity to make hosted data (files, images, videos, websites etc.) censorship-resistant. HTTP servers can be blocked or censored by authorities, may fails or can be hacked. In IPFS this is not easily possible because all data can be decentralized over many nodes around the world and each node can serve the requested content. IPFS is also DOS/dDOS attacks-resistant.

Simple access via nodes, Brave browser, or via gateways

There are three ways how to access data in IPFS network. By instalation of your own IPFS node you get a full access to the network and you can download or upload any content. You can also download Brave browser and install it to your computer which allows you to browse any content with no need of own IPFS node. A third and the simplest way is to use any IPFS gateway which allows you to browse IPFS content over HTTP protocol from any web browser.

If you wish to add data or host your website in IPFS network, you can use our IPFS Hosting Services.

IPFS over Tor = Great anonymity

IPFS network is not an anonymization network. All content can be traceable by IP address of the node who share that content. There are some approaches how to run IPFS node behind Tor network, but at this time there is no simple way how to easily do it. But from the content-visitor point of view the situation is much more better. Most of IPFS gateways are accessible via Tor Browser and Ipfsgate.com offers mirror gateway fully located behind Tor (see: Onion Gateway). If you need an excellent anonymity for visiting some content, using of Onion Gateway should be the best choice for you.

Useful links:

IPFS offical site: ipfs.io

Brave browser: brave.com

IPFS installation guide: ipfs.io/#install

Tor browser: torproject.org

IPFS on GitHub: github.com/ipfs/

Ethereum Name System: ens.domains

IPFS on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ipfs

Filecoin: filecoin.io

IPFS pinning services

An IPFS pinning service is an IPFS node or collection of IPFS nodes dedicated to pinning other people's content on IPFS.

If you wish to pin ('upload to IPFS network') single files (documents, images, videos etc.) in big data volumes, you can use IPFS pinning services like pinata.cloud, eternum.io or infura.io.

IPFS web hosting services

An IPFS web hosting service is a pinnig service aimed at a pinning and serve of whole websites. Because of all data shared accross the IPFS network are meant to be public, natively can not be used any backend code and the database. Only frontend code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript + its frameworks (e.g. JQuery, AngularJS, etc.) are possible. But it does not mean that it is not possible to build up in IPFS network sofisticated website with server code and the database. It can be done very easily but the backend part of code (e.g. PHP and the database) needs to be serve on another hosting server outside the IPFS network. This is the limitation of IPFS.

Ipfsgate.com offers comprehensive approach to host your website in IPFS network. You can select from many MDBootstraped IPFS Web Templates (SPA) or you can use any yours. We can also pin that websites for you.

FAQ

Technical questions

1. What is IPFS

2. What is DWeb

When we currently access the web, our computers use the HTTP protocol to find information stored at a fixed location, usually on a single server. In contrast, the DWeb (decentralized web) can find information based on its content, meaning it could be stored in multiple places at once. In principle, this would better protect users from private and government surveillance because the data are stored in a way that is hardly accessible for third parties or authorities.

3. Content addressing and CID

A content identifier, or CID, is a label used to point to content in IPFS. It doesn't indicate where the content is stored, but it forms a kind of address based on the content itself. CIDs are short, regardless of the size of their underlying content. CIDs are based on the content’s cryptographic hash. That means any difference in the content will produce a different CID and the same content added to two different IPFS nodes using the same settings will produce the same CID.

4. What is IPNS

A concept of content-addressing brings problem with immutability of the content. Each change in the content give a new CID. This means that links on IPFS are permanent. To solve this problem we use the InterPlanetary Name System or IPNS. IPNS is a decentralized version of DNS (Domain Name System). IPNS allows you to generate a link (a mutable address) which always points to the latest version of the content. So, even if you update the content (e.g. website), it will still have the same link.

5. What is DNSLink

DNSLink allow you to map a domain name (e.g. some-your-domain.com) to an IPFS address. Because you can edit your DNS records, you can use them to always point to the latest version of an object in IPFS (remember that an IPFS object's address changes if you modify the object). Since DNSLink uses DNS records, you can assign names/paths/(sub)domains/whatever that are easy to type, read, and remember.

6. Distributed Hash Tables (DHT)

A distributed hash table (DHT) is a distributed system for mapping keys to values. In IPFS, the DHT is used as the fundamental component of the content routing system and acts like a cross between a catalog and a navigation system. It maps what the user is looking for to the peer that is storing the matching content. Think of it as a huge table that stores who has what data.

7. Pinning

Pinning is a very important concept in IPFS. Pinning is the mechanism that allows you to tell IPFS node to always keep some data available for other nodes. IPFS has a fairly aggressive caching mechanism that will keep a data local for a short time after you perform any IPFS operation on it, but these data may get garbage-collected regularly. To prevent that garbage collection, data can be pinned so they persist on that node and gets available for other nodes.

8. Blockchain

A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data. By design, a blockchain is resistant to modification of its data. This is because once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without alteration of all subsequent blocks.

9. Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and .eth domain

The Ethereum name service (ENS) is a decentralized way to address resources. Like DNS, which converts human-readable names to IP addresses, ENS converts human-readable names (e.g. some-your-name.eth) to Ethereum addresses. These addresses can then be used to point to CIDs on IPFS. Because .eth is not a registered DNS top-level domain it is normally inaccessible from DNS and so not all browsers resolve .eth domains automatically without browser extension.

10. Namecoin and .bit domain

Namecoin is an experimental open-source technology which improves decentralization, security, censorship resistance, privacy, and speed of certain components of the internet infrastructure such as DNS and identities. Namecoin enables access websites using the .bit top-level domain. Because .bit is not a registered DNS top-level domain it is normally inaccessible from DNS and so not all browsers resolve .bit domains automatically without browser extension or gateways.

11. Filecoin

Filecoin is an open-source, public cryptocurrency and digital payment system intended to be a blockchain-based cooperative digital storage and data retrieval method. It is made by Protocol Labs and builds on top of InterPlanetary File System, allowing users to rent unused hard drive space. It is a decentralized storage system that aims to “store humanity’s most important information".

User's & security questions

1. Who can use Ipfsgate.com services

Ipfsgate.com is public IPFS gateway and everyone can use it to access the data located in IPFS network.

2. What content can be accessed via Ipfsgate.com

Only legal content (content that is legal in the US and the EU), content that does not infringe the rights of third parties and that does not violate the DMCA.

3. What if someone access an illegal content through Ipfsgate.com

If anyone has an information about such content or about the content that infringe the rights of third parties or violate the DMCA, should report abuse.

4. Does Ipfsgate.com log and store information about IP addresses

No. We do not store IP addresses of the visitors.

5. Does Ipfsgate.com use any content blacklist

No. We do not use any content blacklist and we do not filter the content.