Hello to all passionate selfhosting enthusiasts! Today, however, I have to ask you about a problem that can’t be fully solved by a selfhosted solution. But I believe it’s still closely related to selfhosting.

I’d like to automate mirroring some files/catalogues to different storage providers and then obtain public sharing links for each of them. So I’m looking at Rclone. It supports a variety of different storage providers, which is nice. But is there any structured information about which of them support sharing files via public links? There are just too many of them to quickly check them all.

So if there is no such data, I’ll probably also slowly try them out on my own to see which ones are suited for me, and post the results in the comments if you don’t mind! Maybe.

Well, ideally I’d certainly like to share these files with a selfhosted solution without relying on any 3rdparty «cloud» storage, but that’s not possible without either TLD and public IP or additional software besides web browser on the client side, right? So I’m looking for a somewhat pragmatic solution for now.

Also, maybe you have some useful tips on configuring Rclone for this task in general? I’m considering using union feature with create_policy = all to upload to several storages simultaneously, but is it possible to get public links in this setup?

  • Hinori@scribe.disroot.orgOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Well, while it’s probably the most sane solution, it doesn’t suit me at all, unfortunately. For me, there is a strict requirement: it must be free of charge, without any payment at all. Guess I should have mentioned it explicitly in the original post, but I did not expect such an immediate direction shift!

    • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Understood.

      Use afraid.org or another forever-free dynamic dns service using their free subdomain, set up a computer, pi, or vm in a “demilitarized zone” on your router and forward ports 80 and 443 to it.

      Put your files on that machine and back them up incase it ever gets hacked. Install one of the many web-based self hosted file servers, or, like I said, just caddy pointed at a folder of files, and set up some sort of monitoring for the systems cpu load and network bandwidth. Set up auto-updates.

      Old-school, zero service cost, and zero cloud service dependency. Downsides are required monitoring, users see your home IP, and if it gets hacked, you have to wipe it. Did it that way for years.

      • Hinori@scribe.disroot.orgOPEnglish
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        13 hours ago

        …And it must have nothing to do with my local ISP. Using its IP is also not an option for me, even if it was technically feasible. Sorry for rejecting solutions that would otherwise be viable! So I have no choice but rely on some «cloud» providers in a more or less twisted way. My initial idea was at least treat them as disposable.

        And after briefly exploring some of the options from comments, I now lean towards a combination of Netbird and some DDNS provider that could set a CNAME record for its free subdomains. Can afraid.org do that? I’m afraid its website isn’t opening for me for some reasons, so I can’t read its documentation for now.