Bare VPS

On Debian or Ubuntu, with Postgres and S3-compatible storage somewhere you can reach. It checks out the newest release (releases):

# Node 24 and pnpm
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_24.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs ffmpeg
sudo corepack enable

sudo useradd --system --create-home --home-dir /opt/artbucket artbucket
sudo -u artbucket git clone https://github.com/pwnera/artbucket.git /opt/artbucket/app
cd /opt/artbucket/app
sudo -u artbucket git checkout v2.8.0
sudo -u artbucket pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
sudo -u artbucket cp .env.example .env    # fill it in
sudo -u artbucket pnpm build

A systemd unit:

[Unit]
Description=Artbucket
After=network.target

[Service]
User=artbucket
WorkingDirectory=/opt/artbucket/app
EnvironmentFile=/opt/artbucket/app/.env
Environment=NODE_ENV=production NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pnpm start
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl enable --now artbucket

And Caddy in front, for TLS:

assets.example.com {
  reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}

The app migrates its database when it starts. To upgrade, check out the new tag, pnpm install --frozen-lockfile, pnpm build, and restart the service.