Superdesk is an open source end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform developed and maintained by Sourcefabric with the sole purpose of making the best possible software for journalism. It is scaleable to suit news organisations of any size.
I can see the principles applying to other industries too
"Framadate is an online service for planning an appointment or making a decision quickly and easily. No registration is required.
Here is how it works:
Looks OK, Rallly is the best alternative contender I've found: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3279/rallly-alternative-to-doodle
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"CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us)."
Another FOSS Notion alternative. Built with Flutter & Rust.
When I started with Cloudron, Collabora was a HTML5 streaming app version of LibreOffice, so had all sorts of rendering issues and speed — so OnlyOffice became our preferred.
But — wow — just tried Collabora again — and it's like Google Docs — but private and better! Layouts render faultlessly from Office docs and to PDFs.
Free and decent on mobile too — whereas OnlyOffice wants an enterprise license for that (nothing against them having a freemium business model of course, given they are clearly open-source leaders in many ways too).
Just saying, for anyone else that had written it off or not tried it in a while.
Well done team Cloudron for giving us these options. World class open-sourcery magic! 
@girish @ @nebulon
Cheers for everything @girish & @nebulon 
Now get off the computer and enjoy the festivities wherever you are!
Ho ho ho 
Joining this community and finding so much collaboration, I wonder if, when all the craziness settles, would people be interested in a meet-up?
I've always wanted to visit Berlin, and as much for a social gathering as geek-talk it could be something fun to work towards?
Not expecting some kind of big-effort conference but perhaps getting people together would be good for sharing ideas, getting to know the people behind the handles, and networking to see what else we might do with all this collective experience and enthusiasm.
Fun for 2021 anyone?
"Attendize is an Open-source ticket selling and event management platform and is everything you need for a successful event. Attendize has a wide array of features aimed at making organising events as effortless as possible."
I've been hoping and waiting for this feature for a looong time!
Just did a quick check in my Cloudron instance, and it's now there - open source truly rocks! 
More details here:
@scooke I suppose anything I feel the courage to ask for or suggest I'm seeing value potential for Cloudron the company and the users as well, otherwise we'd just do these things silently ourselves, as we mostly have to now.
Personally, I see Cloudron as the best framework for time-efficient and repeatable, therefore scaleable, web app dev-ops — ultimately resulting in lower costs and barriers to entry for the community to get to try and use almost any open-source web app.
This post is in-line with that (perhaps optimistic) vision.
Effectively, what I'm asking for here is just one app.
We might even be able to get this commissioned from our own development time and contribute it, I've not dug deeper yet, but, ultimately, @girish and @nebulon know their platform better than anyone, including the gotchyas and vision, so I feel it beneficial to at least discuss openly first, see what the interest, appetite and potential collaboration could be.
In the Cloudron App Store, there are a few apps marked as "Unstable", and that's a similar state of; "it's available with warnings and disclaimers regarding stability or completeness".
Perhaps this would then spawn a section of apps that could be flagged "Testing" or "Development" or "Unsupported" or something like that.
I'll see what capacity we have to work on this, but it also might just be that it's not as complicated as it might sound, and it could be a big time-saver for @girish and @nebulon too, so maybe they will have a better vantage point for how to approach it?
Nextybox website also appears to do a good job of explaining the concept, and reasoning for it's existence, and I might finally understand why @robi has been championing this cause for so long on various threads too:
For interest, @vladimir-d has already packages ZorinOS for us locally as a full Desktop OS as a Cloudron app, so we are very active in R&D for these sorts of potentials, and I'm hoping these sorts of developments help attract more developers to Cloudron for the greater benefits of community development.
"Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives
Designed for scanned documents. Perfect software that will help you reduce paper clutter and keep your business organised."
The OCR looks decent and maybe better for personal use than MayanEDMS, which also looks excellent.
I can see it being a good pairing with Invoice Ninja / Firefly III.
"GrapesJS is an open-source, multi-purpose, Web Builder Framework which combines different tools and features with the goal to help you (or users of your application) to build HTML templates without any knowledge of coding. It's a perfect solution to replace the common WYSIWYG editors, which are good for content editing but inappropriate for creating HTML structures. You can see it in action with the official demos, but using its API you're able to build your own editors."
Would pair nicely with Surfer & Mautic / Mailtrain
"Open Source Messaging Platform for Marketing, Support & Sales"
I just messages someone about the Cloudron forum and liked my quote on it too much not to share:
"One of the most positive and proactive communities I've joined. It's like a System Admin's therapy group 
"
Hey, big fan of what you're doing here!
Is anyone interested in sponsored App creation?
As a business, we can budget for this as a reasonable expense and happy to contribute to both the creator and the community with helping fund these things.
"Apprise allows you to send a notification to almost all of the most popular notification services available to us today such as: Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, etc.
System owners who wish to provide a notification service no longer need to research each and every new one as they appear. They just need to include this one library and then they can immediately gain access to almost all of the notifications services available to us today.
System Administrators who wish to send a notification from a scheduled task or from the command line also no longer need to find the right tool for the job. Everything is already wrapped and supported within the apprise script that ships with this product."*
Maybe useful for Cloudron Notification options beyond the browser?
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We can sponsor the following for anyone wanting to get paid to package?
Need these to migrate over our current instances:
Need solutions for:
Looking at the current rate of App packaging and launch on Cloudron, I can only guess all this might take 5 years unless there's something I'm missing.
So many great Apps but I'm not getting any closer to app system consolidation without having a bunch of these. How can we speed this packaging process up?
Sorry, I'd love to learn and do but just can't neglect current duties right now. What I can do is divert a bit of budget if that helps.
If the community here is in a similar position, perhaps we can have a whip-round and contribute to recruiting for this?
I also have some seriously decent privacy-conscious client potential for all of this - but we have to dog-food anything before we can promote it.
Very happy with Cloudron - all features definitely going in a great direction - but how do we get more Apps into the Store faster? That App Request list is going up faster than down.
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Users call rclone "The Swiss army knife of cloud storage", and "Technology indistinguishable from magic".
Rclone really looks after your data. It preserves timestamps and verifies checksums at all times. Transfers over limited bandwidth; intermittent connections, or subject to quota can be restarted, from the last good file transferred. You can check the integrity of your files. Where possible, rclone employs server-side transfers to minimise local bandwidth use and transfers from one provider to another without using local disk.
Virtual backends wrap local and cloud file systems to apply encryption, compression, chunking, hashing and joining.
Rclone mounts any local, cloud or virtual filesystem as a disk on Windows, macOS, linux and FreeBSD, and also serves these over SFTP, HTTP, WebDAV, FTP and DLNA.
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Rclone is widely used on Linux, Windows and Mac. Third-party developers create innovative backup, restore, GUI and business process solutions using the rclone command line or API.
Rclone does the heavy lifting of communicating with cloud storage.
GUI (Experimental)
Rclone can serve a web based GUI (graphical user interface). This is somewhat experimental at the moment so things may be subject to change.
Run this command in a terminal and rclone will download and then display the GUI in a web browser.
rclone rcd --rc-web-gui
Seems to me to be the webapp equivalent/alternative to the also very good, GoodSync, Cyber Duck, Mountain Duck, Expandrive.
There's a local Rsync Browser option too, how well maintained it is and working I don't know: https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser
The issue I'm having with GoodSync is triangulated syncs via a local machine or separate server.
Having Rsync Web GUI as a Cloudron App would enable direct synching of Nextcloud and other data stores with a whole variety of Cloud storage providers, with relatively little technicalities and avoiding the hazards and anxieties of the command line.
@girish @nebulon I'd even go so far as to say; this could be a killer-feature app for Cloudron in making it easier to migrate data from all the many supported cloud connectors. Maybe start with it as an app, and then add it as a Cloudron feature to certain apps in future.
Cloudron already does a great job with backup options, so it would be great to have the same capabilities for migration imports and syncing.
I'm thinking knowing this can help build the community and customers, that ultimately invest in a platform we all seem to enjoy. Likes & reviews on these places could help.
I'll start, quite an easy one and common I'm sure: https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/
Previously tried Cloudways, Runcloud, D2C.io, all pretty good - but Cloudron just spoke to me for the low entry point for personal use, large variety of apps we already use and were setup with more complex K8S and multi-server/provider setups.
Just made complete sense to consolidate a lot of that and optimise for single-server setups with a more accessible admin interface that didn't require high-level dev-ops in-house for the more common needs of any open-source-first and privacy-conscious people or team.
I try to @mention Cloudron regularly on Twitter too on comments on other large open source account tweets for a bit more interest from those likely to find the same satisfying time-saving I'm here for.
I've been studying and thinking a lot about Cloudron use-cases.
Something that bugs me is how the Microsoft/Apple/Google expectations for schools and children is very exclusive for low-income parents.
I can see that a lot of users here are also hosting and sharing with family.
I wonder if you'd consider a Family/Educational licence tier?
Maybe something like €5/m, given that there's still the VPS and domain to pay for.
I'm thinking it could be full-function, except being limited to just one domain.
I just know parents that don't have landline internet or premium services because feeding the family comes first but then they are expected to pay for expensive software and operating systems for their children not to be excluded from learning technology.
You might have to assess how many users that might already include that might expect to change to this tier.
I suppose it could have an additional approval process for the domain being a personal family domain and not a commercial organisation.
It's your business, so your prerogative, I just wanted to note the thought, not as a campaign against your model but just as a consideration alongside all the many other things you consider.
"Houdini is an all-in-one fundraising platform developed in Ruby on Rails. It’s licensed under AGPL/LGPL and is available, without cost, to anyone in the world. Houdini allows you to quickly build and deploy anything from simple donation forms for individual nonprofits, to fully featured crowdfunding sites for startups. Developers from around the world are collaborating to make fundraising infrastructure better for everyone. Join our friendly and helpful community, or contact us if you have a project in mind."
Seems to use Stripe for payment processing.
I was in an email conversation with Wasabi recommending Cloudron to them, since I recommend Wasabi here so much, so perhaps they will reach our for partnership somehow.
In the meantime they've added Cloudron to their docs, which is a nice endorsement:
Maybe they could use Cloudron to switch from Zendesk to Freescout 
Thinking about websites & apps with regular data-creation.
In the event of migrating from one Cloudron to another, it may be necessary to take the site offline for the transition period to ensure the restore contained all the latest data.
Thoughts?
@jimcavoli @girish @nebulon I just had my Open AI beta application accepted!!
Get me n8n.io on Cloudron and I'll get amazing GPT-3 things built for you!
@plusone-nick said in Proposal: Free-Tier Alterations 
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Provide a one time "Update" subscription/service
Anything that encourages people to run outdated software for free sounds like a nightmare and irresponsible to me.
Sorry, but none of this makes any sense.
People pay $10/month for music and video subscription services where they never own the data.
$15/month for what can replace many other paid services is a time-waster filter in my opinion.
Decent System Admins are in the $50-250/hour range. I seriously think Cloudron is too cheap sometimes.
As far as I'm concerned the current pricing is very generous and accommodating for my needs.
I feel it is up to us as the larger network of experienced experts to champion the cause on other chatrooms, forums, social media and business contacts as to how happy we are with Cloudron and what great value it is.
Attracting more developers to app packaging also keeps increasing the value.
I'm trying to get some higher ticket clients onto it, that can then sponsor more of the enterprise types apps.
Maybe if we focus on getting more higher paying subscribes, that will create the economies of scale for a lower pricing on a home tier.
I hate limitations on software - but completely respect paying for luxury add-ons, security not being a luxury.
I must explain the same things many times to new users logging in to my.example.com.
It would be a big time-saver, for them and me, if we could have a first-use pop-up modal that contained one page with first-use welcome introductions and explanations.
This could be dismissed, and a (?) icon put in the top-bar for clicking to see it again.
Admins should be able to edit it.
I do something similar with the Rocket Chat Home page - but then I have to get people through the my.example.com login first, so it makes more sense to have the instructions there to get them into all the other apps necessary for their work and communications.
@vladimir-d is working on packaging this for us all.
Expressions of interested and testing volunteers welcome.
We have this working in development now. Its simplicity is its beauty - so much easier than jumping through any video chat hoops first. Will get you all a Cloudron package very soon...
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Decentralised and uncensored alternative to FlightRadar24, because:
CKAN is a tool for making open data websites. (Think of a content management system like WordPress - but for data, instead of pages and blog posts.) It helps you manage and publish collections of data. It is used by national and local governments, research institutions, and other organizations who collect a lot of data.
Once your data is published, users can use its faceted search features to browse and find the data they need, and preview it using maps, graphs and tables - whether they are developers, journalists, researchers, NGOs, citizens, or even your own staff.
Perhaps there's some Cloudron & App usage data that could be shared nicely with this too? @girish @nebulon
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Open source BI for your whole team.
Connect your dbt project to Lightdash & allow everyone to answer their own data questions.
In the May update Bitwarden brings integration with three popular email forwarding services: SimpleLogin, AnonAddy, and Firefox Relay. These services focus on bringing privacy, and with it, security, to users’ online accounts. The combination of using email aliases they service alongside a password manager adds multiple layers of protection online. With these new Bitwarden integrations, users now have a convenient way to generate both anonymous email addresses and secure passwords for ultimate security....
Not sure if this is in Vaultwarden yet - but this is a market-leading feature now - still very happy with the choice in switching from 1Password and LastPass.
Who needs Twitter, when we have the Cloudron forum to follow each day
I'm sure we all search for "{app name} alternatives" plenty.
I'm also sure we all benefit from Cloudron having more subscribers and growing the team and community.
Therefore, may I suggest a thread for links to places people are finding Cloudron or similar and using all the goodwill, and many people here, to help with some good old-fashioned organic marketing and pr for the cause.
I've added a review and rating here (surferking):
https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/about/
Post any other links and I'm happy to do the same, I'm sure we almost all are. Always genuine reviews - but you don't always get if you don't ask 
The absence of 2FA on the LDAP login Apps makes me nervous for GDPR and typical security needs nowadays.
I don't know that anyone's ever had a break-in yet, and fail2ban is a good start but expectations for 2FA are increasing.
I wonder if a global solution would be for all Cloudron packaged apps to use a Cloudron login screen with 2FA instead of the app's native logins?
Realising this is development overhead in packaging, open to discussion and alternative suggestions. Hoping this idea is more evolution than revolution.
The more we use any data-silo, the potentially more valuable or attractive it becomes for unscrupulous targeting.
Thoughts?
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It's a no - maybe - the shortness of the answer doesn't convince me completely but not an immediate need and with the stories of pretty painless migration I'll post again if I try them again on the subject.
( and plugging Cloudron in all related conversations now )
Hey @girish and @nebulon in the time I've been here, it's great to be a part of what you have created in the platform and the community, and seeing new names all the time appear with brilliant work and ideas really is giving life to Cloudron and everyone collaborating.
I feel that a dedicate "Freelance Work" group would be good for many. There's people here with great skills, and there's people here with clients, budgets, contact networks etc.
I feel that a pinned post at the top of this new group should say something like:
Welcome to the Cloudron community, we hope you will find many like-minds here for making good things happen with the Cloudron platform and community.
If you have work or skills to offer, please post your needs and expectations to announce your availability and interests.
All agreements are between yourselves and the Cloudron forum is simply a place to meet people that can help each other.
Please state your preferred contact method; DM chat in the forum is probably the safest way to share contact details privately.
Be respectful for the value of what you ask for or offer. It takes years of experience to know how to do something in hours and days. Respect your work or your developer commission for the value of the results to you both. Allow for unexpected issues and maintenance.
You can include links to your work if you wish but no affiliate links 3rd-party platforms, and no freelance recruitment platform marketing please.
This is only for person to person networking, so no company promotion please. If you are seeking or know of full-time employment opportunities, that is still a personal networking referral.
Cloudron is not a party to any contracts, offers no endorsement or assurances on the forum members communications and reserves the right to remove any advertising that is not related to the Cloudron platform, Apps and community spirit. Caveat Emptor & Caveat Venditor; Buyer Beware & Seller Beware.
The moderators reserve the right to query any post or member on the legitimacy of their post, remove any post at any time for any reason without obligation for explanation, and all other forum etiquette rules apply.
Welcome to your Cloudron Freelance Work community, and we look forward to hearing what you can all create together!
Something like that
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I have 50 people that @mention me in Discord when something's not working, not found a better monitoring solution than users being able to @mention admins 24/7
How about a Grid view of My Apps for users and a List view for Admins with more room for shortcut icons?
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SpiderFoot has an embedded web-server for providing a clean and intuitive web-based interface but can also be used completely via the command-line. It's written in Python 3 and GPL-licensed."
Similar to theHarvester but with a GUI:
@p44 Its also handy when creating a new VPS or Floating IP to check the IP reputation for bad history before using it. Only takes a few minutes and often quicker to just delete the VPS or floating IP and get another one than jump through all the spamlist delisting hoops.
The message says:
Something has gone wrong
This app is currently not responding. Try refreshing the page.
That might have seemed cute at the time, but for the uninitiated, it implies failure on more levels than just the app, but the implementor, host and anything else by association. It's just negative all round.
May I suggest:
Restarting...
This app should be back shortly. Please try refreshing the page.
If it's still not working in a few minutes, please check with your support contact.
Anyone here experienced with OSC Inventory or similar?
Open computers and software inventory is an assets management solution. Since 2001, OCS Inventory has been looking to make hardware and software inventory of computers more efficient. OCS Inventory queries its agents to know the soft and hard composition of each machine, each server. OCS Inventory also queries the network to discover the active elements that cannot receive an agent. Since version 2.0, OCS Inventory integrates the functionality of SNMP scans.
The main purpose of this integration is to complement the data collected by ipdiscover. Using SNMP scans will allow you to insert a lot of information about your network hardware: printers, switches, computers (which do not have an OCS agent installed), etc. SNMP scans will be performed by OCS agents based on IP addresses collected by ipdiscover.
OCS Inventory includes the package deployment feature, in order not to control, but to ensure uniformity of the software environments present on the network. From the central management server, you can upload the packets that will be downloaded using HTTP/HTTPS and launched by the agent on the client computer. OCS remote deployment is configurable so that sent packets impact the network’s quality of service as little as possible. OCS is used as a deployment tool on parks with more than 150 000 machines.
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@plusone-nick I mean as in disk hardware redundancy. Most racks have 2 of everything else. In my experience a simple server setup on a good hardware rack will outperform K8S for uptime. I lost count of the times we were restarting one thing or another with Rancher to get something working that had no reason to fail than K8S getting it's knickers in a twist.
The biggest risk to data loss is always the simple minds of the users!
The biggest risk to availability is always the complex minds of the tools!
No-one really needs high-availability, online banking goes offline frequently for maintenance. If Google has a bad day, people make a beverage and talk to each other.
HA is snake oil in my experience.
I realise these things can be done with the generic S3 API Compatible settings - but I think there's some good karma value in having them specifically detailed and documented; in that their communities and products seem ethically aligned with Cloudron's aims and community, and will likely bring cross-pollination of champions for each.
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Yup, we have this working now. It's OKish but Nextcloud's search interface is kinda sh*t, so next task is going to be fixing that to make it actually useful and hopefully work similarly to Google Drive with an actual sortable results page.
Elasticsearch as an App from @vladimir-d is a significant win for other uses too.
@danboarder FWIW I've been in the web business 20 years, and probably used every server control panel and managed/wordpress hosting, and none compare to the ease and value of Cloudron - for this web guy at least.
I don't know why the source code licence would stop you doing anything you want.
It sounds to me like you have the same options we all went through to end up here and happier.
I'm happy to recommend, and think you'll find Cloudron very time-liberating - but I can't see why the licence model would stop you using it?
Every action has a reaction, and every choice has an opportunity cost.
I guess your options are things like host server control panels like Plesk, managed services like Cloudways. Best I can say is I've been through those and time and gotchyas with those brought me here.
Personally, life experience tells me there's more than enough to do in business, if you have something that solves 90%+ of one area, you've probably got other areas that the freed up time would help you to get to 90%+ solutions in those other areas sooner than holding out for 100% solutions every time.
Don't know if that helps but then I didn't quite get the relationship between a common use-case and what that has to do with the licence model.
Maybe worth considering that being mass-market isn't always a good thing? Wordpress & Joomla for me are 90% wading through poor plugins, themes and bullshit marketing to find the small percent of things that are actually good. Focus trumps spray & pray every time in my world.
I'm looking at all the tiles with "Running" under their main name, and wondering if that text is needed at all?
I can see the logic for other text, like "Starting..." or "Error" - but "Running" particularly seems unnecessary to me.
Perhaps the area could be used for a sub-text, to show when an app is running, and be replaced with "Starting..." (in yellow) or "Error" (in red) or Stopped (in grey) when the status is not Running?
Not really much more to it, simple solution for a common quick need in remote support assistance:
@qwinter Good find - just ordered copies of that book to read and share, been preaching these things ever since DRM on music became a thing and SaaS became a trojan horse subscription ransom.
Sometimes it's nice to add a personal message to these user invite emails, save also writing a separate email after.
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@JOduMonT I think the world has change now there's more value in data than people released but capitalism knows and is both; competing to acquire, and exploiting, in ways beyond most people's imaginations - until they find election campaigning shenanigans but don't know what to do about it.
So necessary to trust in services; yes.
Trust them with your valuable and private data? 
When Google is reading your shopping email confirmations and Facebook is reading everything with a "Like" script, I think it's a responsibility to have parts of your data world not visible to the marketing world.
Privacy, encryption and permissions should be as essential in schooling for the Technology Revolution as literacy was for The Renaissance.
So - data privacy politics for 6.1 anyone?
It might be more CPU/bandwidth friendly if one Rsync process sends the backup to location A, as it does right now, and a second initiates the copy from B to C, and if desired a D, E, F location too if people wanted to go crazy with backup locations.
From another angle, it might be that we want one entirely different backup method to one place (could be unencrypted rsync), and another to another (perhaps encrypted tarball).
Would very much like this though, especially as cyber attacks are only growing as more and more economic value is online, and on other people's servers.
Desktop app and browser extensions seem to play nice.
I feel I'm in good company here for these sorts of de-centralised things.
Haven't even scratched the surface of what may be possible, but perhaps something Cloudron could make use of for further resilience?
Maybe start with automating the DNS settings with existing integrations?
What could we do with all this amazing engineering combined with the apps and brains that Cloudon brings together?
Following on from this thread:
It looks like Hetzner are now pretty-much doing this exact same thing for their "Storage Share" solution:
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
@girish I think this needs to be a core feature of Cloudron, given the cost-efficiency, scaleability, and additional backup snapshots this offers for very little €s compared to things like GDrive & Dropbox per-user pricing.
Hetzner is offering 1TB @ €3.45/m, 5TB @ €11.78/month, 10TB @ €22.49/month and 20TB @ €43.91/month:
Most importantly, no per-user costs, which I loath!
Unlike mounted Block Storage Volumes, which cost 20x as much, and are not backed-up, unless the server admin specifically implements custom Rsync scripts to or equivalent - Storage Boxes are at least taking daily and on-demand snapshots.
I'm sure other providers, like Scaleway and similar also have equally cost-efficient Storage Box equivalents compared to their block storage equivalent volume mount disks.
Perhaps there's some disk i/o differences, but I think they will be unnoticeable for normal file-server usage.
It seems that this is exactly what Hetzner are doing and offering for their new "Storage Share" service:
If they can do it with satisfactory speed, we should be able to as well please
Given @msbt kindly solved and tested this, it seems the solution is working, and just needs to be made a native user-friendly option please.