The motivation: I like some of the ideas behind IPFS (content addressing, redundancy, distribution), but running a node in practice felt painful. By default, your server turns into a free CDN for strangers, bandwidth and disk get chewed up, and sites are often slow or don’t load at all. SaaS “fixes” exist, but they usually cost more than just renting a normal VPS.
TruthGate makes hosting content straightforward: no extra extensions, apps, or SaaS. You can:
* Publish Web Assembly websites directly to IPFS and served over HTTPS.
* Host and share files without relying on centralized storage.
* Only serve your own content (not become a public gateway).
* Point your own domain and manage it like any other webserver.
For anyone unfamiliar: IPFS is a peer-to-peer, content-addressed file system. In theory, nodes help each other serve shared files and cached sites (deduplication, redundancy, speed). In practice, it hasn’t lived up to that promise. TruthGate is my attempt to fix that gap.
My own site runs on it, and the docs are there if you’d like to tinker.
Website: https://truthgate.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/TruthOrigin/TruthGate-IPFS
I’d really appreciate feedback from this community.
* Does the “NGINX for decentralized hosting” idea make sense?
* Would you actually run something like this at home or in production, or is IPFS still too impractical outside experiments?
Thanks for taking a look.