Cloudflare - IPFS Gateway

tags:: #IPFS/Gateway, #saas

  • This is slightly stale content. Cloudflare now has this as part of Web3 services, and this gateway service is either free for the Basic package, or $5/month for a paid version

  • Cloudflare has a Distributed Web Gateway page that covers both IPFS and Ethereum.

  • Here is the extreme TLDR of using their IPFS gateway (if you already have your DNS hosted with Cloudflare):

    1. Create a CNAME for your website that points to cloudflare-ipfs.com — in my case for my root domain, bmannconsulting.com
    2. Create a TXT record at _dnslink.bmannconsulting.com
    3. Enter in dnslink=/ipns/APPNAME.fission.app — from the Fission Guide on controlling your own DNS

  • Unfortunately, Cloudflare automatically has 6 hours of caching set, and no way to automatically purge / refresh cache when using IPNS in your IPFS/DNSLink. Request on the Cloudflare community forum here for cache clear.

  • For now, setting the #IPFS/DNSLink to use a hash and updating it with ipfs deploy would be one way to make this work.

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