Decentralized is the new buzzword in the crypto community and it is used everywhere to justify everything. I lost count how many times people were trying to sell me ideas with "its decentralized, you get it???". I am getting more and more resilient to take anything seriously that is solved with this. For me S3 is a perfect storage and with Cloudfront is decentralized enough for my use cases. As far as I am concerned a node that is not under AWS or my control is not the definition of decentralized it just means that you have less control over a distributed object store that has worse access patterns than for example S3. Bandwidth is one of the problems. If a typical IPFS node is a home computer than it has 10x upload speed compare to the download speed. This is going to limit how somebody can access content from IPFS. And so on. These access patterns are pretty relevant when you are hosting something other than backups on such a system.
> Bandwidth is one of the problems. If a typical IPFS node is a home computer than it has 10x upload speed compare to the download speed. This is going to limit how somebody can access content from IPFS.
This can easily be addressed by choosing hosts which have gigabit upload links if you are hosting high demand files. Personal computer backups may opt for hosts with 10mbit upload that offer much cheaper storage. It may not be possible to do so atm, but eventually the platforms will get there. It's still very early and most distributed storage technologies are nowhere near complete.
