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Notes on self-hosted image infrastructure.

Background removal, image APIs, and running Fottly on your own server.

I got tired of metered image CDN pricing, so I built my own

Every hosted image CDN I've used follows the same pattern: love it for a month, then dread the bill as it moves with traffic you don't control. Why I self-hosted it instead, and two things that bit me building it.

remove.bg's API is shutting down Dec 1 — here's what that actually means for you

The standalone remove.bg API shuts down December 1, 2026. If you have code calling api.remove.bg, here's who's actually affected and what to do before the deadline.