Continuing to Improve our IPFS Gateway

What this post added

This post details improvements to Cloudflare's IPFS gateway, focusing on enhancing performance, usability, and security for decentralized web content. Key contributions include: implementing an automatic cache purge mechanism using Workers and DNS-over-HTTPS to address long cache TTL complaints; introducing beta testing for Orange-to-Orange (O2O) to allow layered Cloudflare settings for custom domains; establishing a subdomain-based gateway at cf-ipfs.com for enhanced security and immutability by interpreting subdomains as content hashes; enabling session affinity with a custom load balancer to direct requests from the same user to the same IPFS node, minimizing redundant connections; and configuring IPFS nodes for persistent connections with Pinata to improve request performance and reliability.