As a counter argument, your standard browser already caches a ton of stuff, might as well serve some of it back up if your upstream can support it. If you replace your browser cache with IPFS, and replace bookmarking with pinning you've got a functioning system. Your hosting requirements for content will likely go down, you get massive scale redundancy and reliability for free, no more slashdot effect and you might be able to claim 100% uptime due to just how unlikely it would be that someone hits your site while your root host is down and it's so low traffic that it's not bouncing around the network, even if it's just a standard consumer phylink.
You could still get 'a hug of death ' but as the host you can just sit back and let the infrastructure work, distribute and recover, ala what it looks like to be the first seeder of a torrent. I predict this is unlikely in real world situations though, as for someone to share your site they'd likely have visited it first, thus your content host is likely to not be the only host. I'm an optimist, mostly because I think is stupid where we are at concerning self hosting from our homes.
You could still get 'a hug of death ' but as the host you can just sit back and let the infrastructure work, distribute and recover, ala what it looks like to be the first seeder of a torrent. I predict this is unlikely in real world situations though, as for someone to share your site they'd likely have visited it first, thus your content host is likely to not be the only host. I'm an optimist, mostly because I think is stupid where we are at concerning self hosting from our homes.