Because I see AWS url’s when uploading images etc, I assume all the services are hosted in AWS.
I realist this is probably substantially more than a feature request, but I would personally be willing to pay an additional premium to not be hosted with any of the US oligopolists.
Is there any future appetite or potential to use Supernotes with a self-hosted local server, or a personal/private domain on the web, or a sovereign UK / EU cloud service.
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Related to this point and several other threads in tangential ways, a self-hosted version of supernotes would be incredible.
I realize Connor and Tobias currently still plan to support the app even as they take on full time roles, but, should a time come where the strain becomes infeasible, offering a self-hosted option would significantly reduce maintenance burden on the team and would also rectify some concerns people have raised about subscriptions given feature release rates (I realize our subscriptions are paying for more than just new feature work, namely operating costs, but I do get where some of these dissatisfactions might be coming from).
I’d even be down with simply syncing my notes using git or something. In any case, giving users options around storage and synchronization could be a great thing, I think. Obsidian is maybe a good example here. They offer their own synchronization services but one can also just use iCloud (on apple devices) or git, or any other synchronization provider, or simply not bother with syncing and accept that access is limited to one device. Obviously this is a big ask, as it complicates usage, flows, etc. significantly. But anyway this is my long winded way of saying +1.
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Hi @GMac, welcome to the Supernotes Community!
We use London & EU based servers for the entire Supernotes infrastructure. The AWS server location (is in the EU West region) and is not in the US, although granted it is a US company. Since we support Markdown image links, you can always self host your images somewhere else and link to them.
Answering both of your questions above, Supernotes was born out of frustration from slow and unreliably syncing services – the entire app and infrastructure has been developed to be sync and cloud first from day one; along with seamless collaboration. We have internally thought about having federated servers, but this abstraction creates a huge amount of overhead - and we’re favouring simplicity that just works. So from that point of view, it’s unlikely that we’ll support self-hosting in the future. But we’ve deliberately built Supernotes on the open Markdown format and with our API your notes are very transferable and exportable – we don’t believe in locking you in.
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Thanks for the swift response.
All understood and appreciated, performance as part of the reason I bought into the service and supernotes is software I really enjoy using and recommend regularly.
Good idea to link to images hosted elsewhere, though the underlying suggestion/query was more motivated by general distaste at indirectly giving money to amazon.
Still love the platform and service.