Cloudflare IPFS Gateway enables customers to continue using HTTP while reaping the benefits of IPFS.

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Cloudflare IPFS Gateway

Customers can continue to use HTTP while benefiting from IPFS thanks to Cloudflare IPFS Gateway. It enables traditional web clients to provide easy consumption for a larger user base.

Another significant advantage of this is that it is hosted on Cloudflare’s global Anycast edge network, which means it benefits from all of Cloudflare’s reliability, security, caching, and performance features.

Capabilities of Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway

It has the following features:

1. Ability to retrieve IPFS content quickly: Customers can use the IPFS network to access content without having to set up and secure their own IPFS nodes. To retrieve IPFS content, Cloudflare’s gateway uses IPFS nodes on its own resilient and security-hardened network. It is a cache that sits in front of IPFS. We can use it to change or delete content on the IPFS network.
2. Can use custom domain names to serve IPFS content: IPFS allows us to map easy-to-remember names to IPFS content using DNS. DNSLink is the protocol that is used to accomplish this. DNSLink is a Cloudflare feature that allows customers to serve IPFS content using their domain names.
3. Improves Cache, performance, and reliability by using a CDN for IPFS content : When using the Cloudflare IPFS Gateway, customers get the additional benefit of using the Cloudflare CDN, which can cache IPFS content close to users, increasing overall performance.
4. IPFS Gateway and Cloudflare security, reliability, and performance capabilities/products are all accessible through a single panel: Customers can use IPFS Gateway to manage their entire security model, as well as other Cloudflare reliability and performance capabilities/products, from a single interface.

Cloudflare IPFS Gateway: Benefits

The following are some of the advantages of using this:

1. Accessibility: An easy way to access content from the IPFS network that does not require to install any special software.
2. Security: Shifts the security burden to Cloudflare, which uses its global Anycast infrastructure to provide enhanced security, because users are not installing any software and instead rely on the IPFS Gateway. Cloudflare filters HTTP interface content, similar to the HTTP protection Cloudflare has provided for years, to help prevent the spread of malicious content.

   Cloudflare has also implemented IPFS safemode, a node protection layer on top of the IPFS implementation used on all of its native IPFS nodes that allows it to prevent malicious content from being distributed at the native IPFS level.
3. There is no need for maintenance or monitoring: Customers do not need to maintain anything because Cloudflare provides a gateway to the IPFS network. Cloudflare ensures to maintain and monitor security, reliability, and performance.
4. Reliability: The IPFS Gateway is highly reliable and available thanks to Cloudflare’s global Anycast network.
5. Performance : Customers benefit from performance because the IPFS Gateway is part of Cloudflare’s edge network. It includes data centres in over 100 countries. Serves the content from a data centre closest to the user using IPFS content caching.

The architecture and design

The Cloudflare IPFS Gateway is an HTTP-based interface to IPFS that allows users to retrieve IPFS content quickly.

There are a few things to keep in mind:

• A CNAME for ipfs.cloudflare.com will creates automatically in the DNS for the respective domain.
• When the IPFS gateway receives a request for a specific domain, it looks up the value of the DNSLink TXT record for that domain to determine what content to serve.
• It includes a Cloudflare Workers code component that runs on Cloudflare servers all over the world. These data centres are spread across more than 100 countries providing 100 terabits per second of network capacity and DDoS protection.
• Every Cloudflare data centre has IPFS nodes. The Cloudflare Workers code makes API calls to the local IPFS nodes, which can then access the local IPFS blockstore.
• IPFS nodes in the local data centre communicate with other IPFS nodes in Cloudflare’s network. It can access public IPFS network  when needed.
• Users will always access the data centre closest to them because Cloudflare’s network uses Anycast. The Anycast network also ensures high availability by automatically rerouting traffic to another data centre in the event of a problem.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our Support team thoroughly explained the Cloudflare IPFS Gateway.