overview

IPFS Overview

The core concept of IPFS is decentralization, so IPFS doesn't rely on one location.
IPFS-based content is like websites and data which don’t “live” in a single location such as a server farm or data center.
IPFS content is distributed and replicated among several to many locations, called nodes, on the Internet.
The nodes are created and maintained by individual users on their own computers.
And these users may be volunteers hosting content for free, or users who are compensated for hosting.
Instead, it looks for what you want (the content), not where it is.
Files are split into small pieces.
Each piece gets a unique fingerprint (hash).
When you want a file, IPFS finds it from whoever has it, not from one central place.