The problem Host Engine solves

As of February 2020, 62% of all the websites are hosted by big name companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
What happens when one of them goes down?
Over the past few years we are made painfully aware of issues that are faced by companies to keep the servers up and running 24/7.

The way web hosting works today is by hosting all the web content including textual content, code and media content on a centralized location which can then be accessed over the world wide web. But did you know? Your site is going to be down when there is server maintenance or if a load of the server gets high.

Our product uses blockchain and peer-to-peer IPFS technologies to give you a completely decentralized web hosting solution.
A decentralized web hosting is completely free of the issues faced by a server architecture. Even if the main node goes down the peer-to-peer architecture is there to serve your website from other nodes without any centralized content delivery network (CDN).

It uses InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system and Ethereum blockchain to keep your hashes safe.
All of this is implemented right in your browser using a chromium extension.

Challenges we ran into

• ipfs directory uploading through js
• chrome extension content security policies
• multiple html files loading