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0 pointsjgruen7y ago0 comments

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Reminded me of zerobin / privatebin. We used this internally at a previous company to share passwords and sensitive files.

Data is encrypted at client and a url with a key is generated.

Can be used 'burn after reading or with some specific lifetime.

lbeltrame7y ago

As far as I can see, this requires S3 or a S3 compatible service. Kind of defeats the purpose of self hosting unless you can set one yourself (it may be, I didn't look).

EDIT: Apparently there's a way to use filesystem instead of S3, it's just not well documented.

alias_neo7y ago

Minio is your friend. (S3 compatible self-hosted, open-source object store).

I recently implemented a text/snippet sharing tool that uses Minio instead of S3, because I like to self-host everything.

https://minio.io/

GordonS7y ago

I use this with Seafile to store data in Azure Blob storage - it was incredibly simple to setup and has been rock solid since. Highly recommended!

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jasonjayr7y ago

FWIW, It took me about 5 minutes to get it going after I updated nodejs to version 10. It took me another 5 minutes to realize it setup a local filesystem storage in $TEMP automatically. I was impressed with how easy it was to get going, and that it picked sensible (though not well documented) defaults :)

johnchristopher7y ago

The default npm install; npm start will give you a self-hosted app. The docker one is a different beast.

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