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Fortress wiki](https://wiki.teamfortress.com) for providing the image I
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shamelessly downloaded from them` >}}
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I hope Valve will not sue me for taking that assed as my website favicon. I
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I hope Valve will not sue me for taking that asset as my website favicon. I
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swear I will change it, a day. Pinky promise.
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### Hosting
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The real problem of hosting a website nowday is not how to build it (as you can
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The real problem of hosting a website now day is not how to build it (as you can
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see) but _where_ you can host it. There are plenty of cloud provides: AWS,
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Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Scaleway, etc... every day there is a new one
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popping up. They all offers the possibility to host your website pretty easily,
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@ -84,12 +84,12 @@ while trying to kill the boredom caused by COVID-19 lockdown, I discovered
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bothered too much to understand what was about. I though "well, it surely is
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some sort of filesystem". I was somewhat right, but not the way I thought.
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IPFS acts like a peer-to-peer network, where nodes hash the content
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they want to share to let other nodes grab it. You can grab this content using
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your local node or using one of the many available gateways. Nodes can "pin" a
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file too, in order to keep it locally and to serve it to other nodes. If a file
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gets pinned by different nodes and gains traction it basically becomes
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undeletable from the web.
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IPFS acts like a peer-to-peer network, where nodes hash the content they want to
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share to let other nodes grab it. You can grab this content using your local
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node or using one of the many available gateways. Nodes can "pin" a file too, in
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order to keep it locally and to serve it to other nodes. If a file gets pinned
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by different nodes and gains traction it basically can not be deleted from the
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web.
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#### Choosing the right tools
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needed to implement and use NameCheap APIs (currently it is the DNS provider I
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use for most of my websites). "What's the difficulty?" one would ask. [Here is
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the official documentation](https://www.namecheap.com/support/api/intro/), and
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even if the APIs look promising, while studing them my will to live decreased a
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even if the APIs look promising, while studying them my will to live decreased a
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little bit, and so I decided that if I wanted to get up and running with less
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maintenance as possible, with a good uptime while having the maximum
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automatization possible I needed to rely on a dedicated service. Luckily
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automation possible I needed to rely on a dedicated service. Luckily
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[fleek.co](https://fleek.co) was what I was searching for. They currently
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provide the possibility to buy a domain from their website, giving them all the
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hassle of updating the new website on IPFS, distributing it, refreshing a very
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to understand why the website does not load/the DNS is not properly updated
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The only downside to this approach is that Fleek provides limitations on how
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much data and bandwith you can host. At the time of writing, you can only host
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up to 3GB (enough for this website) and have a 50GB bandwith (that's ok for now)
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for the free version. [Upgrading you account](https://fleek.co/pricing/) to one
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of the available plans give you extra space and bandwith.
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much data and bandwidth you can host. At the time of writing, you can only host
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up to 3GB (enough for this website) and have a 50GB bandwidth (that is fine for
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now) for the free version. [Upgrading you account](https://fleek.co/pricing/) to
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one of the available plans give you extra space and bandwidth.
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## Future improvements
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