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With a little knowledge of HTML and CSS, you can create a beautiful website that can be transferred from the Internet to the IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) via a gateway. The public IPFS gateway can be accessed via https://ipfs.io/ipfs/. It is freely available and accordingly receives a lot of traffic from the Internet. If you want quick access to your new WEB3 site, it is better to set up your own gateway or use service providers that offer quick access.
Our penguin page, which consists of a few lines of HTML/CSS code, can be accessed via the above-mentioned public gateway directly at its address https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSoo9Nh8oPa2ntU8rMULWZzBNwAcvEAo6n1479ouL3x5P/.
Since the long "hash value" is difficult to remember, there are various ways to redirect simpler addresses to the destination in IPFS. The penguin page can therefore also be accessed at https://web3.tenckhoff.eu.
The Penguin site now resides on a growing number of IPFS nodes worldwide. If it is accessed in the USA i.e., a connection to a local server, for example in Germany, does not have to be established first, as the usual Internet requires, but the content can be loaded from the nearest IPFS node, where the penguin page is already available e.g. nodes in New York or San Francisco. The same applies, of course, to Beijing and also to countries in which “normal” Internet access has been heavily regulated or even blocked for political reasons.
However, as with many topics relating to blockchain, non-fungible tokens, etc., such IPFS pages are difficult to remove from the InterPlanetary File System, once they are published.
So you should think very carefully in advance about what you are going to transfer in public this way.
