could fc self host a throw-away ftp?

[heda]

quite often people are asked to use some sort of file-sharing to show files that are too large to attach in the forum.

apart from that one could also dream up a use-case for temporary storage, for example for word-files, pdf or whatever.

having a ftp (same login creds as forum?), capped to say 4gb max-space, with fifo-principle, along with max persistence of say 7 days, would be quite handy in sharing help files and other types of collaboration. upload with login only, download without login from link?

probably best to limit file-formats as well, to say, fcstd, odt, ods, txt etc...

dunno intricacies with setting such thing up,
or keeping it running - but from user perspective it would be nice if it was there...

just a random thought...

[mfro]

I guess it could. Setting up an FTP server is the dead easy. Could be done in Python within minutes.

Setting up an FTP server with the required security measures (not only on the machine itself, but also on the demarcation point) is the difficult part.

[adrianinsaval]

Instead of reinventing the wheel I would just recommend people use and donate to https://upload.disroot.org/ or similar projects if they exist

[heda]

thanks for the tip, did not have an inkling about their existence.

looks like it can be self-hosted, so original question kind of still stands...

[NormandC]

Adding a new web service (ftp server or file uploader) means one more thing to maintain. And people are not getting out of their way to help out in that department. Basically two people only do this, and one neither of them seem to have much free time.