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Hm, been spending a while creating a 'Firefox Send' copy, attempting to host files. Check out a new verison at:

- https://v2.femto.pw/

Looking for some help if anyone can, :)

- https://github.com/femto-apps/web-file-uploader

The old copy (https://femto.pw/) has been used over 100 million times and sent over 13PB of data!

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Well, not exactly a copy. Firefox Send encrypts/decrypts files client-side if I remember correctly. Your service receives the files in plaintext thus theoretically allowing you (or anybody who is able to gain access to the servers) to snoop on the contents.

https://github.com/femto-apps/web-file-uploader is the non-typoed url

Check out this project as well: https://github.com/kern/filepizza

Last time I looked, FilePizza failed on large files, seemingly because it wanted to pull them entirely into RAM. Has that changed?

I don't believe so. It's definitely still got some stability issues.

This is really cool and will probably fill the void that Firefox Send left for me.

Out of curiosity, how do you deal with all that bandwidth? Are you self-hosted?

We are self-hosted, I'd _hate_ to think of the costs of hosting this service through AWS or similar who charges for ingress / egress.

We have 5gbps of bandwidth and 12TB of storage that I've dedicated to the service (costing me ~£30/mo, so a fairly trivial sum).

I'm hoping that if we ever exceed 12TB / 5gbps, others will similarly host their own versions of the application. I've heard of half a dozen people already who have just decided to host their own.

>5gbps of bandwidth and 12TB of storage that I've dedicated to the service (costing me ~£30/mo, so a fairly trivial sum).

I assume you're using hardware you own and the thirty pounds are just networking costs?

Yeah, pretty much. Some of the storage & networking is stolen from other projects of mine which lowers the cost significantly. Almost all of my servers for home projects come with 4TB hard drives which I never use anywhere near the full capacity of.

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