izi VS conference-app-in-a-box

I took a look at https://github.com/aaviator42/izi/blob/main/izi.php. Basically the first repository that was listed. It looks a lot like what I wrote years ago, which unfortunately, in my book is not a positive. What I take issue with are the following things.

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One of the 'services' I host is a simple interface on a server that allows me to easily upload files and get sharable links to them.

At this point it's used by more than just me, a bunch of people in my circle use my instance to share files.

In case anyone else finds this useful: https://github.com/aaviator42/izi

There's a demo here: https://aavi.xyz/proj/fakeizi/

For the same purposes, I use a script I wrote that can be thought of as a simple self hosted FF Send alternative.

Allows you to easily upload files to your server from a web interface and share them.

It's a single PHP script you chuck on a server (shared hosting or virtual private or homelab): https://github.com/aaviator42/izi

- a reliable billing model for less technical users. It has to be impossible to rack up huge cloud bills

For now I guess it's just not yet mature enough. But I would like to see the serverless mentality finding it's way into self-hosted software communities.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986980

An example of what I mean: https://github.com/full-stack-serverless/conference-app-in-a...

I don't see any reason why that shouldn't also work for more typical self-hosted applications