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
          4·
          12 hours ago

          Interesting… I didn’t even think it could be used that way! So I might as well consider this option for real. Can it be used with a dynamic dns TLD?

          Don’t feel brave enough to selfhost a public-facing service, though…

          • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zipEnglish
            5·
            11 hours ago

            Yea it’s called zero trust on cloudflare. Allows you to expose a service (ip : port) on your WAN on the net via a TLD with zero trust running. It’s a sort of tunnel, and because the ip address is cloudflare it obfuscates your ip. You can’t get exposed via dns a records. You can add restrictions too. I always do geo based and only let connections local to me in.

      • cthulhupunk0@lemmy.mlEnglish
        62·
        12 hours ago

        Check out using ddns. It’s not perfect, but works. There are updater containers you can run. NoIP used to have freebie domains, I bought a domain a while back, then switched to cloudflare for convenience despite it being cloudflare (you can leave tell them not to use their proxy for individual sub-domains). Bonus points for using something like nginx proxy manager or cert-manager to handle acme LetsEncrypt certs, because unencrypted http is BAD.

        • Hinori@scribe.disroot.orgOPEnglish
          31·
          9 hours ago

          And… how to obtain a public IP, then?

          because unencrypted http is BAD.

          Sorry, I don’t enjoy such blatant wordings at all. I prefer to say «supports delivering content unmodified solely by a lucky chance» :D

          Edit: now, after reading @benno@sh.itjust.works’s and @bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip’s comments, I realized that Cloudflare tunnel could be used for reverse-proxying traffic to the local daemons! You know, when you think about Cloudflare, you genuinely feels nothing but repulsion after all that endless browser check pages, and don’t even consider it as something useful. So for now, I’m trying to wrap my head around all of this to ask a meaningful question. So it’s not over yet!