If you don’t mind me asking, how much are your current costs? My infra for managed hosting is way over-provisioned. If you are using your instance just for yourself, send me a DM and we can work out a deal.

caddy can serve the files and deal with SSL certificates in case you put this in a public domain.

I’m building on top of Funkwhale, so yes to both.

The instance itself is already up. To signup you need to become a member and $29/year gives you access to it, alongside with Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix.

What I am building now is a way that will unify this with a storefront which can let people sell their music and also a way to collect donations from their fans.

My low-tech and not photo-specific solution for this: I’ve created accounts for my parents on my matrix server, and we have a “family room” to share photos of the kids. The element client let’s you browse all media upload to a room, so you sort of get the “chronological order” display.

Not to diss an open source project, but Faircamp is “just” a static site generator for artists that want to showcase their music. It has no storefront, can no communicate with customers, etc. People need a lot more than a nice-looking playlist .

If you are considering an alternative for Bandcamp, may I contact you? I am working on something that I hope can both be useful for artists looking for a mor stable income stream and music listeners who want an alternative to Spotify.

Shit, you are right. I forgot they went down this source-available hill.

n8n.io works pretty great for individuals and small teams, open source and self-hostable.

If you are looking for a system just for you and low on resources, I’d recommend https://gotosocial.org. Single binary, easy to setup and supports S3 storage.

Thunderbird is good enough for me I guess. I don’t think it is slow, it handles my multiple accounts just fine. I don’t have an overly complex email tbh, so my biggest requirements are only (a) how fast can I archive things (b) how easy it is to find things by searching. I also used evolution for a while, but thought it was doing more than I needed so I never cared about digging in deeper.

Obviously I’d need a webmail client

Why “obviously”? Plenty of open source, high quality email clients for desktop and mobile, and I can not think of any scenario nowadays where you’d be willing to access your email from an untrusted device anyway.

Running a VPS does not disqualify as self-hosted, but I do agree that this type of question is not really on-topic.

@Mateleo@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you’ll be better off by asking on some other community on programming.dev or !pro@selfhosted.forum

They could solve your last point by providing a community forum like Discourse or even Lemmy, and saying that support for the packaged software is an extra charge.

It’s still baffling for me that none of their “budget-cloud” (Hetzner, OVH) providers have not gotten into this segment of taking open source packages and offer as a turn-key system.

I’m yet to understand why people downvote comments like yours. Your answer was on-topic, provided a reasoning, was well-written… even if I haven’t fully recovered from the trauma of having two wordpress sites hacked, I still think your comment has merit.

Then we are going to go in circles: people already described use-cases and your knee-jerk reaction is to respond with “but I can do *something vaguely related* with OVH”.

This gets tiring, and I’d rather do something else with my time. Have a good one.

Are you trying to really understand how the thing works, or are you just looking for ways to dismiss the thing so that you can remain ignorant about it.

We’re talking about data transmission caps (as in, 1TB/month), not in bandwidth (as in 800MB/s) Also, IPFS is a protocol. The “cap” of the network is only theoretically bound by the amount of nodes running in it, but in practice it doesn’t really matter because the bandwidth of any single node will always end up being the real bottleneck.

You are really failing to understand how it works, and I am failing to explain it properly.

similar to https://mysite.com/folder1/IMG.jpg

No. Similar to a Distributed Hash Table. It won’t matter if people go https://mysite or https://yoursite`. With a DHT, all you need is the hash of the file, and your node will be able to locate all servers who have the relevant pieces of data and send it to you.

“IPFS” can not have a cap, because IPFS is not a service provider. IPFS is a protocol.

They will at some point. Just like reddit, they kept raising money and growing indefinitely to corner the market. Sooner or later they will have to find some way to pay back their investors and this is when they will shit the bed.

With plenty of open source, privacy-respecting alternatives out there that can benefit from our support, why not just drop Discord now and avoid the shitshow before it happens?

There is always a cap.