D StatusPage
Infrastructure
status page hosting
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
1 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 20 critical, out of 53 comments about the project. Thread score -0.34.
Idea: 1 for, 7 againstDesign: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
IPFS is a natural fit for status pages
From 1 comment
This is such a natural use case for IPFS that commercial adoption seems inevitable; as first mover you can offer the concierge edition and optionally gain a ton of credibility by…
book_mentioned on HN
Objections
Hosting on one node means content disappears if that node goes away
From 1 comment
I'm not sure this is actually Decentralized. I have been playing with IPFS quite a bit recently, and this looks to host the content on one node. That node goes away, your content…
NickBusey on HN
A gateway VPS is still a single point of failure
From 1 comment
If I understand correctly, you still need a gateway VPS to proxy the ipfs site out to the internet over http. Isn't this a single point of failure, as your gateway server will be…
travelton on HN
IPNS cannot prove the latest version, so stale content can be served
From 2 comments
IPNS has a huge flaw, as I understand it - there is no way to prove, as a consumer of an IPNS name, that you’ve got the latest data. A malicious node in the network could present…
vertex-four on HN> However, a malicious node in the network can't present you with outdated information or false information, as the IPNS record is signed with the key from the peer. False…
vertex-four on HN
Decentralized is overused as a buzzword
From 1 comment
Decentralized is the new buzzword in the crypto community and it is used everywhere to justify everything. I lost count how many times people were trying to sell me ideas with…
StreamBright on HN
Requests
Explain how updates and permanent links work
From 2 comments
So how do I (perma-)link the user to the latest status page?
heavenlyblue on HNWhat if I wanted to always link to the latest, like from my normal HTTPS powered web site? Is there a way to link to the head so that it always references the latest version?
foxhop on HN
Fix broken footer link to statuspage.co
From 1 comment
> Powered by D StatusPage on IPFS The URI on the footer of the status page points to here: https://www.statuspage.co - but it doesn't appear to load, is this an artifact from…
foxhop on HN
Questions
How to link to the latest version of the status page
From 1 comment
What if I wanted to always link to the latest, like from my normal HTTPS powered web site? Is there a way to link to the head so that it always references the latest version?
foxhop on HN
How IPFS handles illegal content
From 2 comments
Naive question: if data on IPFS is permanent, meaning it's hard or impossible to remove things from it, what mechanisms, if any, exists to prevent unlawful content from being…
tw1010 on HNThis is such a natural use case for IPFS that commercial adoption seems inevitable; as first mover you can offer the concierge edition and optionally gain a ton of credibility by…
book_mentioned on HN
How real-time status updates work on static content
From 1 comment
Big fan of IPFS here, but silly question, isn't a status page suppose to have realtime updates of whether a service is online or not? This doesn't seem like a good fit unless…
marknadal on HN
Alternatives named
Traditional hosted status page services such as Statuspage.io
From 1 comment
One of the main problems while I was researching about status page services and saw many having the same doubts here was about where to deploy the status page. Besides this…
paulogr on HN
Hosting on a couple of VPSes
From 1 comment
I mean, your status page itself may be on ipfs but since ipfs isn’t natively supported as a browser protocol, your “decentralization” fails since you’ll likely need to host the…
ComputerGuru on HN