Private Buckets, Pre-Signed URLs: Self-Hosting Without the Compromise

Self-hosters often face a false choice: keep everything local and lose mobility, or move to the cloud and surrender control. This episode walks through a third path — private R2 buckets, pre-signed URLs, and edge-based image processing — that gives you authenticated, time-limited access to your inventory photos from anywhere, without exposing PII or burning server CPU.