Yet Another Mid Ahh Filehost

• YAMAF is a yet another mid ahh filehost for personal use.
• It is extremely simple and minimal and might break under niche circumstances like uploading many huge files.
• It uses axum unlike its predecessors¹², both of which were written in rust some time ago now.

Environment Variables

Variable	What it does	Default
ROOT_DIR	Directory where files are stored	/var/files
KEY	Optional key required to upload files	None
TITLE	Title to be shown in the HTML	Yet Another Mid Ahh Filehost
INTERNAL_HOST	Internal host to bind the service to	127.0.0.1
INTERNAL_PORT	Internal port to bind the service to	None
EXTERNAL_HOST	User facing domain name, used to return accessible URLs	${INTERNAL_HOST}
EXTERNAL_HAS_TLS	URLs in html have https if set, otherwise http	-
MAX_FILES	This does not actually limit the number of files, and used to calculate bodysize	10
MAX_FILESIZE_MB	Determines the max filesize possible, used to return failure and calculate bodysize	100M
MIN_FILEDAYS	Minimum number of days for file retention	30 days
MAX_FILEDAYS	Maximum number of days for file retention	365 days

Retention

File retention is as per the following formula

retention = min_days + (max_days - min_days) * (1 - file_size / max_size) ^ e

Cleanup happens everyday when midnight (IST) has passed

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¹

https://git.weirdnatto.in/natto1784/simple-filehost/

²

https://git.weirdnatto.in/natto1784/simpler-filehost