Content addressed shared site storage?

[obv-mikhail]

Right now all sites store their files in separate folders, some of them contain identical files.

With an IPFS-like storage system there would be no data duplication.

Would zeronet benefit from this?

[HelloZeroNet]

I think the benefit would be minimal: js/css files recommended to be merged (so the hash does not match and the sizes are also negilable) and the data files are dynamic/unique

you can use webtorrent to share big files between sites and adding built-in torrent client are also planned.

[wigy-opensource-developer]

Initial page-load might be somewhat longer for a zite, but there is always a time-space trade-off. And since zites are single-page-applications, the initial page-load might not be the most relevant performance metric. Anyways, I see and accept your argument.

[matthiasbeyer]

I would love a backend using IPFS. This would also easily enable always-online caching nodes (think of a server running an IPFS node and pinning content for you).

[purplesyringa]

@HelloZeroNet I guess this can now be closed in favor of #2192.