Self-hosting forms, the sane way
I run a few (very) small websites, nothing serious: they’re not businesses, they’re hobbies. There is no risk involved if they would go down, apart from maybe disappointing a few hundred people that found a link to it on search engines. Because working on them is sometimes a fun challenge, but at the same time I am not a developer/sysadmin, there are two rules I follow:
In other words: DIY, unless there’s a great FOSS tool to help me out. The excuse I give myself is “this is more hacky than 95% of people doing the same thing, anyway”.
On one of my sites, I needed to install a form with file upload capability. After some research, I found a few solutions to solve my need:
In the end, I decided to build something myself that adhered to the above points as much as possible. In summary, it looks like this:
Most people reading this will understand this chart without much further explanation. Before I dive into the details, here are the pros and cons of this setup:
