Following up from Georg Greve on Self-Sovereign Identity in Swiss Healthcare , ... I found this video which is quite well explained. There is a DNS "sub-protocol" for IPFS called DNSLink which can be used to redirect a web site lookup to an IPFS gateway. See Publishing my Website on IPFS Update (2021-03-04): Up until today this blog was running on IPFS, hosted on Pinata, and used GitHub actions to publish updates. Today I switched my blog to be hosted on [Amazon] S3 . I wasn't able to find an easy way of getting SSL certificates installed while redirecting my website through an IPFS Gateway. I'm sure this is possible - and I saw that Cloudfare helps with this - but my website was already setup in AWS Route53, so transitioning to Cloudfare was an additional hurdle. The simplest method was to switch to using S3 to host my static content - and this also hedges against future complexity that I might run into. (I am still a bit of a web developer n00b after all). No h...