About IPFS login

The IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system.

Why are we using IPFS not AWS?

IPFS uses IP addressed to identify each file connecting IPFS hosts globally. IPFS is a public network so anyone can run it and pin their content. You can learn more about pinning here. Anyone can run their own IPFS node and pin their own content (the node is a computer).

People can use our nodes but we put a password on it so that people can't upload stuff to our computer unless we know them.

How does someone get a username and password?

They contact Gild Lab on:

david@gildlab.xyz

In the future this will change so that you can use any node, so this setup is temporary.