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title: Concepts
description: Concepts for using the Cloudflare IPFS Gateway.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/core-services-preview.png
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# Concepts

As you get started with Cloudflare's IPFS Gateway, you may want to read through the following concepts.

* [ Interplanetary File System (IPFS) ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web3/ipfs-gateway/concepts/ipfs/)
* [ DNSLink gateways ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web3/ipfs-gateway/concepts/dnslink/)
* [ Universal Path gateway ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web3/ipfs-gateway/concepts/universal-gateway/)

Note

For help with additional concepts, refer to the [IPFS documentation ↗](https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/).

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