Hello, i am looking for a self hosted application for sharing files like with wetransfer. I have tried the discontinued Firefox Send which has nice features like link expiry and works great in general but lacks authentication (only offers simple password protection). I also want the option to share with registered users. Is there anything similar out there? Thanks
You can selfhost Bitwarden/Vaultwarden (which I recommend, since it’s rewritten in Rust and you get all the premium features for free) and use Bitwarden Send. This is probably more secure than most other options.
Though for the actual password selfhosting part of it, that is too much for my blood. Much higher chance that I would seriously fuck something up and lose access to hundreds of services than the remote bitwarden server gets compromised or becomes too shitty to use.
If you have regular backups, not an issue. I use bitwarden self hosted through home assistant, which makes daily backups trivial.
You can continue using the cloud hosted version of Bitwarden and only use your own instance for file sharing.
Or pay the astoundingly low $10/yr for Premium and use Send on the cloud servers.
Sure, I’ve been a premium customer for years because I find the service very useful, but this community is all about selfhosting.
True enough, but I like to slide in an ad in for Bitwarden every once in a while. I don’t think my $10 alone is going to keep them afloat :)
Since no one mentioned, there’s a Firefox send fork alive, send.vis.ee or src GitHub.com/timvisee/send
Send is super cool! Fixed you link: https://timvisee.com/projects/send/
Lufi is exaclly that, demo here: https://lufi.fiat-tux.fr/
I use Gokapi
This comes closest to what i am looking for…thanks…
I guess nextcloud could do it, but you get a whole lot more in the same package.
This is a bit overkill for my purposes…i just need the filesharing part…
No personal experience with it but this project seem to be interesting for your use case and have a docker so it’s easy to test:
https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowserFilebrowser is awesome, but I dont think you can share files with non users.
It supports sharing via public link. But I don’t think it has sharing with registered users via username.
Dang I didnt know that, my bad…
Croc has worked nicely for me when I had to transfer very large files. I’ll check out Korra next time if “async” means it will start transferring once the first file is hashed. That always annoyed me about Croc and I’d manually break my transfers into chunks because I didn’t want to wait 10min before even one file was transferred.
Not really. It’s async in the sense that you can send a file now, and the server will hold it in an encrypted state until your recipient comes to collect it.
Try out fileshelter. It’s super lightweight and works pretty reliably.
