Keeping Big Rat online forever

[dispherical]

I feel like bigrat.monster is important. So, I took the power of IPFS and Git to help keep big rat online forever. IPFS works best if multiple people are hosting the site, so here is a command on how to add it

You will need to install the ipfs cli tool for this. You can also use jsipfs (npm install ipfs -g), but you will have to change the ipfs commands to jsipfs. You will also need git-scm* to run it.

In one terminal, run ipfs daemon, in the other, run the following:

git clone https://github.com/bigratmonster/bigrat.monster.git
cd bigrat.monster
ipfs add -r .

You now have uploaded a copy of bigrat.monster to IPFS! Now, keeping bigrat.monster online requires keeping the daemon running, so you should use a system file or PM2 or something similar to keep big rat online.

Edit: Big rat monster is now on IPFS! Due to me using IPNS, I've modified the tutorial to make it a lot easier to follow.
Edit 2: Looking at this, changes are made a lot, so it's best to clone the repository and add it that way

*git-scm is a fancy way of saying git, the version control system that powers github.

[bigratenthusiast]

Is this safe?

[dispherical]

Yes. You can learn more about IPFS here

[dispherical]

Whoever controls the domain, they should look into DNSlink, adding a TXT record to point the domain to the IPFS hash. I'll look into setting up a automated system to get hashes for bigrat.monster

[SoNothingMC]

Thanks David.

[smokeytube]