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Self-hosting

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Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.

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When it comes to self-hosting services, there’s always a question of whether deploying a local container is worth the extra hassle when you can just access cloud-based platforms. However, Vert is one instance where it’s always better to ditch the online apps for a containerized solution.

For starters, you’ll have to upload your documents to third-party servers when converting PDFs, JPGs, or other documents via online platforms. While many websites claim to delete your data after a specific span of time, there’s a huge privacy issue every time you send private files to an external server.

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ffmpeg is the best file converter

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

and ImageMagick for everything that ffmpeg doesn't support.