Alastar Gabriel (but you can call me anything). I'm an ex-professional software developer, now I make weird art and music :p I will give you bug facts unprompted
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I recently followed the Backblaze B2 + Cloudflare route of this post and I found that Dropshare on macOS is a fairly good way1 to just upload files to my B2 bucket and get a shareable URL:
Unfortunately it's paid but it has a one-time license thing, cost is a bit steep but if you plan to use this a lot it's worth it IMO
1984.hosting is also good for dns stuff (only dns, no caching tho), and oracle cloud has free options for servers (+ a lot of block storage) (but they require a credit card)
huh, i didn't know all numeric xyz domains were only around $1 a year even when renewing
...fuck, there's one i kinda want now that i'm thinking about it, and it's not just because it'd be cheap (but that certainly helps)
some assholes bought 5318008.xyz and 8008135.xyz and proceeded to do LITERALLY NOTHING with them!!!! one of them they didnt bother to fix their ssl, another isnt even up! malice...
would you believe it if i told you my isp charges extra for the privilege of receiving incoming requests (and even more extra to not change my ip every 24 hours)
not meaning to throw shade though, if i had a better connection i'd absolutely host a bunch of things off a single-board computers
in the category of services that dont allow hotlinking, mediafire stuns me. in how, it still exists. and still serves the fundamental service of hosting files. we've dug some downloads out of our own youtube descriptions that still work while everyone's dropbox links are dead
it's kinda funny, when I saw cloudflare I immediately went "wait...", then saw the tiny 1 and immediately guessed that the reference is basically an acknowledgement
also might I suggest hetzner? cheap, great, and solid.
if you get your domain from namecheap the process for like linking it to a host should be the same right?
i was hoping this would go into dedicated hotlinkable file hosting server software, though i understand why it didnt, i simply assumed a different target audience for the post lol. i have a server and reverse proxy set up running a variety of software on it already; could you perhaps recommend any fileserver software that would be easy to run in docker, bind to a random port, and reverse proxy to that port from a subdomain?
I'll add that Cyberduck (https://cyberduck.io/) is also good for this, crossplatform and open source to boot.
