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Setup an IPFS Node

The Definitive Guide

We could not take it any longer. When we heard that in China people have been buying hard drives with ipfs enabled, thinking it will generate money, we had to get closer to the reality of setting up an IPFS node RIGHT NOW.

This guide is meant to be best CURRENT practice in a few scenarios.

Software Implementations

• IPFS

Hardware that can be used as fullnode

• Raspberry Pi
• Mini-computers (like Bitnodes or Bitseed)
• Physical Computer / Standard PC
• Virtual Server (AWS, linode, etc)
• NAS

Biggest Issues

• There is no human friendly interface to setup IPFS on a drive.
• There is no system for generating revenue from running or, renting the extra space on your HD.
• Low adoption
• Lots of competition from Google, Amazon, Apple, MS on cloud storage.

From Beginner to Expert

EASY: Run IPFS in a Docker container

EASY: Run ipfs on your computer

• Install IPFS

MEDIUM: Setup NPM module to do ipfs solution

• A solution

HARD: Setup ipfs on Raspberry Pi / PC

• INCOMPLETE, needs to be written.

Innovation to do

• Make IPFS Apache module
• Make IPFS Nginx modules
• Make simple front-end to some simple NAS
• Make some simple front-end to openwrt

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Site Updated: 11 February 2019 . Page Updated: 6 July 2018 . FullNode by poexio

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