Yet another request for hosting my own assets

There are a few threads about this already (like this one and this one ). I'd post in one of them, but they say "This post is more than 2 months old and has been automatically closed. Please start a new thread if you'd like to discuss this topic further.", so here we are. I have a VPS. It has lots of storage. It has lots of bandwidth. roll20 doesn't need to pay for either of these. Even with the mentor level storage I can see myself running out. I can't easily see myself running out of the amount of storage on my VPS, and even if I did, I could buy more storage more cheaply from my VPS provider than the mentor account offers. This is not meant to devalue the mentor program (which I am strongly considering signing up for, especially with the addition of dynamic lighting and line of sight), just stating some facts about where I can spend my money to get more storage for hosting stuff. Beyond the additional storage, it'd also be easier for me to organize things using the Unix file/directory structure I'm accustomed to instead of the flat, tag-based system we have now. This would help out less technical people with dropbox/google drive as mentioned in the threads I linked, too. It's not just for people who have their own servers.

Being able to use my own server to draw resources from... +1 on that. :) Would save me a lot of effort.

+1 because it sounds like a all-win-situation. If people would be able to use assets from their own libraries (outside Roll20) that would help them to organize them, it would decrease the amount of space Roll20 needs, it would also lessen the load on Roll20 server.

I agree with Maetco! Easier access for them, and less stress on our servers for us!

I would love to be able to use my home server.

This would open security holes big as a barndoor though, if you could suddenly link to stuff on different servers. If someone managed to somehow inject a malicious javascript that way for example. Even if it's limited to image files, some people will find ways around that, if there's a gateway that allows resources from off-site. I think for that very reason we'll never see anything like that.

I could just as easily post something malicious to one of the sites roll20 already searches. So I don't really see this as being much of an argument. And besides that, if you're that paranoid concerned about security, don't play with people you don't know or trust. Just like everything else on the internet and real life.

I believe being able to use Google Drive to host resources was part of the Tabletop Forge to-do list before the merger. I dearly hope that it makes it into Roll20.