Last night, there was a malfunction in the server room of Station B, which made the APP inaccessible. “B station crashed” hit the list of most popular searches on Weibo. After the B station went down, A station, Douban site and Jinjiang site also suffered network failures at the same time, and one after another hit the list of most popular searches. Such A regular crash is rare. Let’s see what’s going on here.
At present, in general, we connect a large number of computers in series through the Internet, connect mobile terminals together, use the HTTP protocol to achieve data transmission and access, the data centralized storage, terminal IP as the address, to form a central database. There are a lot of “visible eye” problems!
One is the speed problem, the centralized database in the case of a large number of access and data transmission, under great pressure. When the network appears centralized concurrent there will be A “crash”, such as hot search led to the death of Weibo, and yesterday’s A station, Douban and Jinjiang site.
The second issue is security, for hackers, the centralized storage of data so that they can get all the data by attacking one node. In theory, being the data store also has the potential to do bad things. Would one social APP, for example, “sync” your life, your studies, your location information, even your discussions with friends with another social APP used to push ads for you? Take for example Didi, which went public in the United States a few days ago.
In the future, how can we make full use of the data while ensuring that the data transmission does not go down, ensuring that the data is safe, private and orderly? Therefore, it is necessary to study the distributed data storage protocol.
Therefore, the distributed storage protocol was jointly developed by Juan and his friends in May 2014, using the incentive mechanism of blockchain as a carrier to promote development and let more people participate in it.
IPFS is essentially an Internet protocol just like HTTP. Its purpose is to build a global point-to-point distributed version of the file storage system, to supplement or even replace the existing Internet Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
IPFS distributed data storage, which allows files to be stored permanently and non-centrally. Depending on its point-to-point hypermedia properties, various types of data can be stored quickly. In addition, IPFS’s “content addressing” can realize the fast transfer of some large files such as 4K video, in the cloud storage and cloud computing field, there is a lot of room for development.
Distributed storage is also the direction of the R&D layout of many traditional technology giants. They have a huge demand for server storage and cannot afford the loss caused by a crash. For example, a centralized storage server bought by Alibaba is worth 2 million yuan. IPFS has a high expectation and value in effectively solving the problems existing in HTTP protocol and promoting the development of comprehensive digital economy. With the future development of FIL, it also plays a positive role.
Digging money is the best way to get money, mining belongs to the primary market, all the currency in circulation on the market are obtained by digging money, now only IPFS/FIL is not affected, miners are in transition FIL, FIL after the future can be said to be a bright.