In September's feature update, we added integration with dWebServices.xyz.

dWebServices is an IPNS record hosting service. When the integration is enabled in Planet, each time you update your website, the latest CID will be sent to dWebServices to be updated in the IPNS record hosted there.

To start, first, you can sign up with your Ethereum wallet. The service can detect ENS domains already in the wallet, or you can add any domain to the dashboard. Then when you edit planet, you will find a section to enter the domain and API key here:

Then, in addition to the built-in IPNS record in Planet, you will now have another IPNS record hosted with dWebServices. The hosted IPNS record usually has better discoverability because it's on a well-connected server. That is especially useful for users running Planet from their laptops since laptops are not meant to be running 24x7 as servers.

You can set that hosted IPNS record as your ENS contenthash or .bit dWeb record too.

I hope you will find the new integration useful.

dWebServices is in the latest Gitcoin Round 15, a program that funds software projects. You can donate to the dWebServices project, and the project will receive a matching amount from Gitcoin sponsors.

So now, for the optimal experience for laptop users, the only missing piece is that we would need a good pinning service that accepts CID or IPNS records. Then users running Planet from their laptops would only need to wait a bit each time they updated their websites. As soon as confirmations from remote services arrive, they can close the lids, and the content will be hosted from those services, while authoritative versions are still controlled locally.