Thanks for your detailed input, I’m glad to hear that there is a team that does look out for things at crates.io, and that I can host my own registry.

I’ve been wanting to write rust for quite some time, but I can’t get over crates. The system just seems insecure to me. What happens in 10 years when the servers go down? Is there any sort of mitigation for supply chain attacks? As I understand it anyone can submit code; what’s stopping someone from putting malicious code into a crate I’ve been using?

I suppose these are risks for any third party package system though.

I’ve used Flutter infrequently and have experienced things like this with their package system.

I actually wasn’t aware that it could be run as a web service. I’d say do that.

So, I’ve done exactly this with gramps. I used a NUC running proxmox at my home.

I created a very simple https server with turnkey nginx running on the NUC proxmox instance. I host the gramps database exports there via a simple HTML page.

Tied it to a domain name and sent the link to my family, with instructions to install gramps and import the database.

EDIT: I used Let’s Encrypt for the SSL keys

Since it’s inception in fact. That’s what made it free to use.

EE Here, I like this answer.

This is how a toroidal transformer is built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_inductors_and_transformers