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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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[-] manwichmakesameal@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I haven’t seen anyone mention Apache Guacamole. I use it pretty much every day and it works great for me. Multiple hosts and switching between.

[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
IP Internet Protocol
NAS Network-Attached Storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN Virtual Private Network

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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[-] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 1 points 1 month ago

You can get a free subdomain from https://desec.io/ so maybe that could help? I did that for a while before buying a cheap domain. You'll get something like stuff.dedyn.io

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Nice, thanks; that'd be totally fine by me for now!

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
IP/Name: 30p87.de
Key: YfXqz85PRidZ0NwMj3SAkFk5wypJPofTInbae9+mb1I=

All default setting, relay and server, free version.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Why does this smell like a data trap? Haha... Do you operate this? TBH, I really don't know a lick of how this stuff works, which is why I'm asking around...

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I honestly wouldn't use Rustdesk do to the Chinese affiliation and the questionable ownership. Unfortunately haven't found an alternative outside of RDP over Netbird.

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