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This won’t work for Android windows and such devices. And it’s a pain to setup, won’t work 100% and some scanners are ven worse .

Scanservejs is the final solution for all platforms.

Op want to upload a file to a web GUI and print it from there, not share printers with other computer/ devices.

Also, scanservejs is the the sane web GUI to actually do the same with scanner.

For scanning it make sense as there are no shared scanning solutions across platforms. For printing, it’s of little use as other pointed out you can print to cups from anything basically.

But o get the need for a web printing page, as uploading a file and hit print button is a zero setup, and while simple even remote cups printing is not 0% extra setup, you have at the very least to select a printer or hit “share as” and select a print service (android). YMMV

48 disks seems a nightmare in power consumption, failure rate, and overall cabling management…

What was the total capacity?

I use e self made wood cabinet in the attic where also the PV inverter is located. I used Velcro to strip on the wall (brick wall) stuff like switch firewall etc, only to find those collapsed on the server itself every time. No matter which glue or adhesive i used.

At the end, a strong unbranded Chinese double sided tape was better and still strong after all big western brand failed over time.

Maybe a mix of heat and uneven surface was the culprit, who knows.

Uptime for home users is useless. More important is recovery, reboot and resume (the 3’Rs)

You server should reboot automatically, storage should restore itself from unsafe shutdown and your services should resume operations like nothing happened.

This means test your reboot, ensure stuff doesn’t break, and so on.

Failing storage after an hard reboot is the hardest.

For network, i have two ISP connections and a an auto switch script Incase one goes down. But honestly it’s overkill and not needed for 99% of home hosters.

Buying some kind of UPS like a battery powered power strip is also nice but keep in mind that require maintenance to replace batteries once every few years (long enough to forget) and so be useless. The ups shall only last enough to perform a controlled server shutdown using NUTS.

No cups does not print from web UI, it’s only for management. Cups is used to install a d manage the printer, all your computers can then print over the network using cups, but they still need to configure the (remote cups) printer locally.

I use scanservejs since at least one year and can confirm it’s the best.

As for printing, I went down the same rabbit hole and had zero luck. Seems such a stupid thing yet nobody created such a service, except for a couple of commercial ones.

So yeah, if you find something …

By the way, probably creating a simple web interface that accepts uploads and pipe to lpr is pretty easy to do, but I didn’t got around to do it. Printing feels… Outdated. And printing from computer or android is so easy anyway that probably useless.

Why? What would “Pasta Robles” even means? Robles has no meaning in Italian and doesn’t even sound like Italian at all … :)

Does this app run in a browser or on a server?

How is this self hosted? Seems a desktop application

Xale, the logo is pretty, on topic and quite cute. Is it made with AI? No idea. Does it really matter?

Give open source projects a break will you?

If you don’t like the logo just say so.