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		dboreham on Nov 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to host your own distributed website in just a... This isn't how IPFS works FWIW. Your upstream connection is only needed to feed the small number of fetches that aren't cached somewhere else in the network. Much the same as a traditional CDN in that respect.

Sohcahtoa82 on Nov 27, 2018 [–]

Ah okay. Thank you for the clarification.

It sounds similar to Freenet then, with perhaps less of a stress on anonymity.

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