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Is it possible to self-host RustDesk completely for free? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I thought self-hosting requires, like, paid ownership of a website or something. I don't think I've ever self-hosted before and am lost with its guide.

My primary concern is RustDesk's warning about possibly shutting down its free self-hosting because of bot abuse, despite now requiring GitHub accounts. There seems to be nothing even remotely close to RustDesk, except possibly HopToDesk, which I heard is a fork of an older version or something.

It'd be nice to be able to keep this going just in case. Or are there free, E2EE servers out there that anyone knows of?

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My recommendation to many newcomers:

Setup Yunohost, which gives you a custom Debian-based OS that's easy to deploy tested builds, like Rustdesk. You can configure your Domain info, DNS, etc pretty easily, and if you decide, a dynamic domain or Porkbun (cuz is cheap plus free private WHOIS and SSL certs).

Yes, a small learning curve, but easier than building from Docker when you know nothing about Docker nor have the time to learn. I can fumble through a UI, I can't fumble with commands or code that I don't instinctively know. Others who day "just take the time to learn Docker"... But I've got 2 jobs, kids and their activities, pets, and other hobbies, so not much time for other stuff.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

100 percent agree. Yunohost or runtipi are easy ways to get into hosting

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

There is also motivation and energy from other severely draining, external problems. Thanks, I had never heard of Yunohost before.

[–] dabe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

yunohost is awesome. The only reason I don’t still use it is because I use command line and containers daily already, so I’m genuinely faster that way. I recommend yunohost to friends and I’d go back to it if I already didn’t have a clean, particular way to set up things in my homelab.