davad

This.

It definitely is possible, but if you have to ask, you probably don’t have the background to do it.

If you want to do it anyways, great! You’ll be learning some new skills. I suggest taking it slow. Use a bunch of dummy boards to practice on. When you’re ready to try for real, try it on a machine you don’t care about first. Something cheap enough that you don’t care if you mess it up.

I don’t know how dead it is, but it’s pretty straightforward to set up your own gateway (public or private). Even if you don’t have a tech background, there’s the “IPFS Desktop” app that stands up the IPFS service locally.

Do you mind telling roughly how much it cost?

I think they did say that in the older thread. But for proper security, you shouldn’t have to trust them. You should have build tools that will re-fetch everything to create an identical build. That gives a clear chain of custody, which proves that morning has been tampered with.

It sounds like most, if not all, come from upstream projects.