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Best Self Hosted ShareX image uploader
Hey, I would like to have a share-x image uploader self hosted, so that I can upload files to my custom domain.
A main feature would be embeds on discord, somewhat like this
On searching google I have found this
and this and would like to know if any of you have used these options before or have an alternative.
Any suggestions would be appreciated greatly from my end 
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Xbackbone
Hey, does it support embeding on discord? If so that would be great!
FTP server and nginx
I am also looking for a ShareX backend.
But I need 2 features...
1. Upload must be private. (No visitor/random person uploading)
2. Auto delete files after xx days.
xbackbone looked good. But does not support the auto delete.
You can selfhost with Chevereto
PHP >= 7.2
all u need is nginx, a ftp server and that's it, alongside php knowledge, very simple to do
And for when you get tired of that: https://droplr.com/
I lucked out with a lifetime subscription. I was paying for it monthly until then, already got my money's worth and more.
similarly, another long term solution thats been around for a while https://gyazo.com/ is pretty good too
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#file-transfer---single-click--drag-n-drop-upload
Personally I am using https://github.com/BobbyWibowo/lolisafe, there's Chibisafe too.
XBackbone is my vote. It has been solid, consistent, and reliant. Works with ShareX out of the box and I can upload photos, files, videos, or binary. Good file dump.
I built an arm based image for XBackbone compatible to run on Oracle Cloud ARM instances - https://github.com/davidjameshowell/XBackBone-docker-arm64
You can use my site https://im.ge as we allow unlimited uploads for free. Also, I am replicating the files to 3 DC along with RAID on every DC.
Another good feature is I provide free CDN with 50+ POPs
You can hotlink and give credit back to my site at your website footer.
Note: I have often been asked how I will monetise it as I give it for free.
Not everything people do or own wants to bring them money. Something brings satisfaction or happiness. Like people owning Lamborghini, which is too costly to own or maintain.
100%. Sometimes even if it costs us money, maintaining it and keep it running is part of the satisfaction.
For my screenshots, all I do is configure ShareX to upload them via SFTP (file transfer over SSH, not old-school deprecated FTP). I made a new user on one of my servers, locked it down so it's chrooted and can't run interactive commands (SFTP access only), and use that for screenshot uploads. I've never needed anything fancier.
For Discord, can't you paste screenshots into Discord directly? idk I don't use really use it, but I thought that's built-in?
You can, but I am looking for an embed. Like basically a title and stuff with the image inside
Likewise with droplr : not bad for the price! Helps that they have the ~10 sub accounts.
@imgmoney nice to see the im.ge project develop. I remember tinkering with it a while back.
@Daniel15 quite happy with my current off the self solution setup but your post offers some nice food for thought. (And a weekend project)
+1 for xbackbone with docker
https://github.com/tycrek/ass , personally uses this, works fine with custom embed
https://github.com/diced/zipline , seems to get more update and a frontend
xbackbone looks interesting. It's unfortunate that it uses PHP (since I'll have to install PHP on a server) but maybe it's worth it. I might try it and see if it has major advantages over just using SFTP.
I used to run an image hosting site and it got overwhelmed with a LOT of spam. I truly hope yours doesn't suffer the same fate
Any solution support this URL format?