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The amount of of infrastructure you have to deploy to use this seems excessive.[1] You need NGrok (a commercial service) to get through NAT. You need Docker to install. You need Heroku, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS or Google Cloud to host. Then you need a reverse proxy, HAProxy, Nginx or Apache Httpd, for some reason.

How many sysadmins does it take to screw this in?

[1] https://github.com/remie/YouTransfer/wiki/hosting

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Actually... you don't need any of those. It's only a suggestion. You can also install NodeJS, download YouTransfer, set the port to 80 and run it.

However, it is highly recommended to either use Docker, a reverse proxy, any of the PaaS providers or a combination of the above.

EDIT: I've updated the wiki with additional information on running it locally.

I think those are supposed to be alternate options, depending on where and how you want to run it.

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