And soft lock yourself… log in to the DNS portal you need 2FA from your email… while your email is having DNS issues lol

It would be nice if it worked in Node.js

Is there a project that acts like a registry? It can proxy the request with TTL, and you can push images to it too?

It’s a solved problem! Try https://containers.dev/

Artists can just clone the repo and open your project with a supported editor(like VSCode). Done. You can write a config that says what base OS, install packages, and install VSCode extensions (via VSCode workspace settings).

Many projects use this setup and it has been magical.

Tip: you can copy and paste the Hugging Face link directly into the search box, and it will download the model automatically! Also, it’s pretty smart. It will load into your VRAM first, then your RAM. If you can fit everything into VRAM, you get the fastest speed. But even if you are using RAM, it’s not terribly bad; it’s still faster than you can read.

Check out Watchtower! Auto-update your containers. Don’t forget to set WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP to true, or your disk will be filled with old images.