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?
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
Nice, thanks; that’d be totally fine by me for now!
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
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IP/Name: 30p87.de Key: YfXqz85PRidZ0NwMj3SAkFk5wypJPofTInbae9+mb1I=All default setting, relay and server, free version.
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…
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.
Sunshine and moonlight. Best option iv found. just set up remote access ahead of time and it’s the best option by a mile.
True remote full access with out the need to set it up in advance thats also reliable imis basically impossible from what I’ve found. There just ain’t any great options. They all suck in their own unique way.
