IPFS Hosting for WordPress? You Found It

What Is IPFS Hosting?

IPFS hosting traditionally refers to serving content using the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer protocol that stores and distributes files based on their content hash. This method ensures decentralization and version control.

Why True IPFS Hosting Is Nearly Impossible for WordPress

While IPFS hosting offers powerful benefits like decentralization and immutability, implementing it directly with WordPress is highly impractical — if not impossible — for most users.

WordPress was built for dynamic, server-side rendering, while IPFS is designed for immutable, static content.

WordPress Relies on PHP and MySQL

Every WordPress page is dynamically generated using PHP scripts and a MySQL database. IPFS, on the other hand, can only serve pre-rendered static files. There’s no way to run PHP code or query a database from within IPFS. That makes it incompatible with the way WordPress fundamentally operates.

Dynamic Plugins Break in IPFS

Most WordPress plugins assume a dynamic server environment. Contact forms, membership systems, search features, and comment sections all depend on real-time server processing. IPFS can’t handle these without complex serverless workarounds—and most plugins were never designed with that in mind.

No Native Support for Authentication or Sessions

IPFS doesn’t support cookies, sessions, or authentication workflows. If your WordPress site includes gated content or user accounts, those features simply won’t work in a pure IPFS environment.

Deployment Complexity and Storage Costs

To host even a static-exported version of WordPress on IPFS, you must generate the files, pin them to an IPFS node, manage replication across peers, and often pay third-party services to ensure availability. It’s complex and unreliable for most production sites.

We Deliver IPFS-style Hosting for WordPress through Static WordPress

At Headless Hostman, we deliver the benefits of IPFS hosting — immutability, global replication, and zero downtime — through Static WordPress and Cloudflare.

Our powerful static hosting platform distributes your content across 300+ data centers worldwide.

While we don’t publish directly to the IPFS protocol, our system offers the same performance and security characteristics developers love about IPFS — with greater accessibility, speed, reliability, and simplicity.

What is Static WordPress?

Static WordPress is a version of your site that embeds images and files directly onto flattened pages. These pre-rendered pages are totally separated from database servers. The combination creates a faster, more secure, and far more resilient website.

How Our IPFS-Style Hosting Works

• We convert your existing WordPress site (as-is) to Static
• The Static code is deployed through GitHub
• Each deployment is content-addressed via Git commits
• Files are immutable and versioned automatically
• Content is globally distributed to Cloudflare’s edge nodes
• Visitors are served from the nearest data center, instantly

Why Choose Headless Hostman for IPFS Hosting?

300+ Global Edge Locations

We leverage Cloudflare’s network of over 300 data centers to ensure your content is delivered at lightning speed, no matter where your users are in the world.

Git-Based Versioning

Every deploy is tied to a specific Git commit, giving you rollback capabilities and permanent, traceable versions of your site—just like IPFS CIDs.

Custom Domain Support

Deploy instantly to a custom domain with automatic TLS and edge caching. Your users never have to touch a gateway URL or worry about performance.

Immutable Deployments

Our deployments are read-only and immutable by default. Once live, your site version can’t be modified — ensuring content fidelity and trust.

It doesn’t change until your next Static deployment.

How It Compares: IPFS Hosting vs. IPFS-Style Hosting

Why Headless Hostman Is Different Than (Most) Static WordPress Solutions

This isn’t another Static WordPress Plugin

We’re an end-to-end static site conversion platform built for real-world WordPress sites. We take your dynamic site, convert it to static HTML, optimize it, and deploy it globally—automatically.

• Compare us to other Static WordPress tools

No Configuration Headaches

No YAML files. No plugin updates. No guessing. Just a streamlined process where you sign up, migrate, and publish.

Forms That Work

Whether you use Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, or Ninja Forms, we support form submissions, file uploads, and notifications—through serverless endpoints or native bridges.

• See our full list of Compatibilities here

Compatible With Modern WordPress

We work with nearly every plugin, theme, and builder — including Elementor, Bricks, and block-based editors.

You don’t lose features or styling when converting to static.

SEO and Speed Optimized

Beyond just making your site static, we help you pass Core Web Vitals with in-dashboard performance tools like:

• Critical CSS generation
• Deferred stylesheet and script loading
• Lazyloading for images and iFrames
• HTML minification and whitespace cleanup
• Script and style pruning

Full Diagnostics Suite

From sitemap visibility to robots.txt validation and JavaScript compatibility monitoring, our diagnostics center helps ensure your site stays compliant, visible, and stable post-deployment.

Real Support, Real Help

When something breaks, we’re here. With 24/7 support, real onboarding, and proactive alerts, we take the guesswork out of static WordPress hosting.

A Static Site Setup Without the Struggle

Headless Hostman is the only WordPress static solution that doesn’t force trade-offs.

You keep the WordPress backend you love, but serve your site through a secure, blazing-fast global edge network — no plugins, no complexity, no limits.