pros-cons.MD

Questions

• Should we have bootstrap nodes?

  • Pros: Nodes in guangdong will discover each other faster
  • Cons: One more thing to manage as we need to make sure our bootstrap nodes are running and available

• Could we have lite peers?

  • Pros: Good for hardware restriced devices
  • Cons: Wouldn't be contributing to the overall network

• Public or Private Network

  • Pros: Open network
  • Cons: Permissioned = harder to manage

• Introduce Seeding phase: We incorporate seeding peers to cache blocks on the ipfs network. Ex, if a file is meant to be accessed publicly ( Website, shared files, etc ) we can seed peers with the blocks therefore reducing load on a single node and increasing transfer time. If we're going to have lots of peers might as well use them. IPFS already caches files but a seed peer would be a dedicated node to seed blocks.

  • Pros: Speed up file transfer, maximize bandwith, resiliency.
  • Cons: Managing garbage collection, adds complexity.