Ask HN: Static Site Generator for photo and video sharing

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3 years ago

I’ve had several recent issues where videos I sent from my iPhone ended up in “tiny” low-res mode for the recipient. It got me thinking- I ought to be able to easyly upload a video to my own server, and them a link to it. It is 2023. We have the technology.

So that brings us to: Media hosting question - I recently setup a knowledge base (Markdown/Obsidian/MkDocs/GitHub/Render.com/iCloud/Working Copy), and I’m looking for a similar setup for media hosting. I’d like a public domain (media.example.com), easy for me to upload into from iPhone - ideally using the Files app. Basically, Dropbox, but its using my own personal cloud infrastructure. Having password protected areas would be great (family photo albums?), and expiring links could be useful too

My current files situation is a scatter between iCloud, Google Drive, archives in a (currently offline) Synology NAS. Relatedly, would love to hear about peoples personal IT file system setup, who are thinking at a 10 year+ horizon… and don’t want to be fulltime sysadmin as a 3rd job.

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