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Cloudflare has a Distributed Web Gateway page that covers both IPFSIPFS
InterPlanetary File System
Originally created by [[Juan Benet]] who founded [[Protocol Labs]], which continues to improve IPFS and related protocols such as [[libp2p]] and [[IPLD]], as well as the [[Filecoin]] blockchain.
and Ethereum.

Here is the extreme TLDR of using their IPFS gateway (if you already have your DNS hosted with Cloudflare):

  1. Create a CNAME for your website that points to cloudflare-ipfs.com – in my case for my root domain, bmannconsulting.com
  2. Create a TXT record at _dnslink.bmannconsulting.com
  3. Enter in dnslink=/ipns/APPNAME.fission.app – from the FissionFission
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Unfortunately, Cloudflare automatically has 6 hours of caching set, and no way to automatically purge / refresh cache when using IPNS in your DNSLink. Request on the Cloudflare community forum here for cache clear.

For now, setting the DNSLink to use a hash and updating it with ipfs deployipfs deploy
Github github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-deploy
Originally by [[agentofuser]], now part of [[Protocol Labs]] [[IPFS Shipyard]].
DNS for [[Cloudflare]] Example
Put this in an .env file.
IPFS_DEPLOY_CLOUDFLARE__API_TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN_HERE
IPFS_DEPLOY_CLOUDFLARE__ZONE=bmannconsulting.com
IPFS_DEPLOY_CLOUDFLARE__RECORD=_dnslink.bmannconsulting.com
would be one way to make this work.