HACKER Q&A
📣 FieryTransition

Any experiences with decentralized blockchain app hosting? Ala Ethereum?


Or any other Secure multi-party computation or "smart-contract" based hosting?

For example like Ethereums dapps, would love to know how the experience was developing and maintaining the app. Costs compared to traditional hosting etc.


  👤 verdverm Accepted Answer ✓
You don't put html/js on Ethereum or another blockchain, just the smart contract.

While you can host web assets on IPFS, you will find the UX too slow (latency is high in these systems). Use a CDN like Cloudflare.

The costs are typically greater than regular apps, because you still have to develop the regular app, and also a smart contract + more security auditing. Additionally, finding devs for blockchain is even harder, for several reasons.

Recommendation... skip the hype, start from a problem, choose the best way to solve it, and build something people love.