I’m very interested in decentralised and censorship resistant hosting but it really feels like very little progress has been made here. It still seems like the best setup is a tor hidden service. It’s not decentralised but it’s a whole lot more practical and private from what I can see.
I assume IPFS is using some kind of torrent like DHT where it’s trivial to see what files people are accessing.
From my perspective, completely decentralised hosting is not actually very important. A website typically has a central owner who adds content and maintains it, they can often also host some software on a computer somewhere. The hard part is the transport between the owner and the user.
As we have seen, networking infrastructure is widely weaponised for censorship. Tor services avoid this but the accessibility massively drops so you won’t have much of a user base if you rely on tor.