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How does IPFS solve the pain of data storage after the crash?

The server went down suddenly.

On the evening of July 13, the "crash" rushed to the third place in Weibo. According to the news, there is a suspected server downtime, and the page prompts "I am very sorry, the page is temporarily inaccessible". In addition to the loading error of website and mobile phone display, the light video and editing software produced by Li Li could not be opened, and the display page was loaded incorrectly.

After the crash, Station A, which could not bear a large number of tourists, also collapsed. Douban and Jinjiang followed closely. Many apps crashed, and the official response was that some server rooms failed, and many sites had problems. It's probably not related to the website, but it should be related to the cloud server. After a short period of investigation and repair, the cause of the crash should be the influence of a large number of repeated visits and insufficient data carrying capacity in a short period of time.

IPFS implements storage "casting net"

The most common drawback of centralized storage represented by HTTP is that the network centralized access traffic is bursting, which easily leads to server crash and page loss, and such incidents emerge one after another.

Generally speaking, the four main causes of "downtime" are running environment problems, server performance problems, replication problems or data loss or damage. Then the problems of running environment, such as the exhaustion of large disk space and the damage and loss of data, can be solved by a large-capacity, safe and stable distributed storage project-IPFS.

IPFS is a distributed storage protocol built by blockchain technology, which has the advantages of credibility, traceability and non-tampering. The distributed storage form will not lose data due to the destruction of some storage devices, and the storage is "widely distributed", safe and reliable, and the data can be stored permanently.

More importantly, in addition to solving the problem of high demand for data storage space, the emergence of IPFS has a greater significance in finding a better way to defend the rights and interests of users in the Internet world, for example, users' personal information should be protected.

IPFS realizes "zero leakage" of user privacy

On the evening of July 4, a message about "Notice on Removing the' Didi Chuxing 'App" quickly detonated public opinion.

Why did the relevant state departments first put the board of safety supervision on companies such as Didi? This is because these Internet platform companies represented by Didi have mastered a huge amount of data resources. In fact, as early as before Didi, on June 26th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology informed that as of June 26th, 2 1, a total of1/70,000 apps were inspected, 4,002 illegal apps were required to be rectified, and 1248 apps that were not in place were publicly notified. These apps are mainly in four aspects: illegal collection of personal information, illegal use of personal information, frequent harassment of users' claims, deception to induce users to jump to the page, seriously damaging users' rights and interests and infringing on their data privacy.

From a macro perspective, laws related to data security are also constantly improving. For example, in June 10, the 29th meeting of the 13th NPC Standing Committee voted to pass the People's Republic of China (PRC) Data Security Law, which will take effect on September/0/20265438.

However, at present, the domestic laws on data protection are not enough to protect the privacy of personal information, and in many cases they can only play the role of accountability afterwards. In the case that legal means alone cannot completely prevent data from being illegally used or even leaked, can other means be used to solve the privacy security problem?

In this context, IPFS is also considered as one of the best tools to solve user privacy problems.

How does IPFS provide a perfect solution?

When we store files on IPFS, IPFS will automatically store files in enough storage nodes distributed around the world. In this way, the decentralization of data storage is realized to the greatest extent, and no machine can master the complete data alone. At the same time, this storage method can also effectively prevent data from being damaged or lost. If the data fragments of one storage node are lost, other copies can still be found in other storage nodes, so as to avoid data loss caused by storage hardware failure to the maximum extent and make users' data storage more stable and secure.

More importantly, if the data is tampered with or damaged, the IPFS system will automatically detect it. Nowadays, various cloud storage providers do not encrypt and protect their users' data. Even if some providers add static encryption function, it is only achieved by controlling the encryption key of users, rather than creating a truly "uninformed" secret storage system, which means that customer data may be stolen, leaked or sold by hackers or other attackers, which is very dangerous. Whether the data is centralized or not, users (or the applications they use) should encrypt the data before providing it to these cloud storage providers.

The data stored in IPFS is almost impossible to be stolen by competitors. In addition to the distributed storage of data, IPFS encrypts every data file, which can only be opened and accessed with a key, and this key belongs to only one user. Even if hackers or attackers can steal data, they won't know the content because they don't have the key.

The increasingly popular mobile devices, sensors and "intelligent" machines are tracking people's data digitally, so it is urgent to solve the problem of personal information security. It can be said that the storage mode of IPFS creates a brand-new security mode, encrypts all contents, effectively ensures the security of data and protects the privacy of users, which is very suitable for solving the storage pain of big data technology.

It can be predicted that under the historical trend of strengthening new infrastructure, artificial intelligence and the rapid development of the Internet of Everything in China, big data needs secure storage methods, so IPFS and its supporting products and services will have an increasingly broad market.