Digital Asset Management: Resource Space
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£500 p/m self-hosted … or did I misunderstand?
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Ah ha
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FWIW, I used this quite a lot, and it wasn't easy to set up, nor maintain. It needed lots of ram. I had it on my Cloudron. I also had it on a separate VPS running only LAMP. Despite the ease of the install instructions, there was always, always some weird, niche piece of software it needed installed first. It also had weird limitations like not being able to upload folders, nor reading or parsing a folder uploaded by SFTP (it uses MySQL to track media) - it took ALOT of work ahead of time to arrange your media you want to upload, and then alot of time to manage it the same way once in RS. Plus, frustratingly, it always eventually died on me, and no amount of help from forums could help me. You know what the only DAM, or DAM-like web app that has always worked and has been easy to maintain, etc., is? Filerun. However, I'm not sure the code for the free version is available anymore. UPDATE: https://docs.filerun.com/filerun_install_guide
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FWIW, I used this quite a lot, and it wasn't easy to set up, nor maintain. It needed lots of ram. I had it on my Cloudron. I also had it on a separate VPS running only LAMP. Despite the ease of the install instructions, there was always, always some weird, niche piece of software it needed installed first. It also had weird limitations like not being able to upload folders, nor reading or parsing a folder uploaded by SFTP (it uses MySQL to track media) - it took ALOT of work ahead of time to arrange your media you want to upload, and then alot of time to manage it the same way once in RS. Plus, frustratingly, it always eventually died on me, and no amount of help from forums could help me. You know what the only DAM, or DAM-like web app that has always worked and has been easy to maintain, etc., is? Filerun. However, I'm not sure the code for the free version is available anymore. UPDATE: https://docs.filerun.com/filerun_install_guide
I am planning to install this on Cloudron so I will see if I run into the same isues you encountered.
Concerning the limitations: my understanding is that (virtual) collections rather than folder hierarchies are used because everything is based on meta data. The advantage of this is that one document can be part of multiple collections. Most DAM systems seem to work on this principle and are not intended to replicate a virual drive.
Filerun is more like Nextcloud. In fact it advertises itself as "like Google Drive but private". As you wrote, it is no longer available free of charge.
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I am planning to install this on Cloudron so I will see if I run into the same isues you encountered.
Concerning the limitations: my understanding is that (virtual) collections rather than folder hierarchies are used because everything is based on meta data. The advantage of this is that one document can be part of multiple collections. Most DAM systems seem to work on this principle and are not intended to replicate a virual drive.
Filerun is more like Nextcloud. In fact it advertises itself as "like Google Drive but private". As you wrote, it is no longer available free of charge.
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