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Help! I need a really simple image hosting solution (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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For my Masters thesis project, I'm required to keep a blog documenting my progress, and being the open source/self hosting guy that I am, I decided to host my own WriteFreely instance on my VPS.

The problem is, WriteFreely doesn't support direct image uploads, only embeds. I'd of course like to self host my images for the blog too, so I'm in need of a really lightweight image hosting solution. Things like Immich or Nextcloud are far too much for what I need, I basically just need a password-protected upload interface and the ability to grab the direct links to the images to embed them. I don't need analytics or account management or anything like that.

I know I could transfer images to my server directly via scp or rsync or ftp and host them behind nginx directly, but that's a faff and I'd rather just deploy a container once and be done with it.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Things like Immich or Nextcloud are far too much for what I need, I basically just need a password-protected upload interface and the ability to grab the direct links to the images to embed them.

Why do you care that they do things you don't need if they also do what you need?

Because these do just what you need and do it well.

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

On my homelab I don't mind so much as I have 64gb of ram and and 8tb of storage, but on my vps I want everything to be relatively lightweight

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

2Gig on S3 (in us-east-1) is like $0.05/mo. and is enough for either Nextcloud or Immich. Your data is going to be the largest consumer of space.