I for one use and self-host Meshcentral. The GUI is ugly, but it works well.
jflesch
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In term of software compatibility, on Linux, you have the option of making chroots. Since the kernel devs makes a lot of effort to preserve compatibility, old software can still work fine. If I remember correctly, some kernel devs tested a while ago some really really old versions of bash, gcc, etc, and they still work fine with modern kernels.
Red Hat. Probably Canonical too.
I know it for a fact since I worked for a bank that chose Red Hat and since I also know someone working for Red Hat.
Yes I would count this game as self-hosted (as long as you don't need a third-party service to start it). And yes I agree it is a pretty wide definition. But at the same time, I really think there are a lot of good reasons to not dismiss it:
- I think it is the simplest form of self-hosting you can do and it is doable by anybody without much technical expertise. For people with little to no technical expertise, it's the perfect gateway to self-hosting. All you need to start is a backup drive.
- For a single person, it's actually the approach that often makes the more sense.
- And even for technical people, sometimes you just don't want to deploy and maintain yet-another-service.
- And finally, you can still access your data when you're offline.
To be honest, when it comes to self-hosting, I can't shake this feeling that a lot of people are dismissing desktop apps immediately just because they are not cool nor hype anymore.
Regarding Syncthing, if I'm not mistaken, the Web UI can be opened to the network (most likely for headless servers) but by default it is only reachable through the loopback.
Regarding OP, for me, it wasn't entirely clear at first whether they wanted network access or not. They clarified it later in comments.
It is "hosted" on your workstation. There is no need for a server-client relationship for self-hosting.
By requiring a server-client relationship, you're making self-hosting uselessly hard to deploy and enforce a very specific design when others (P2P, file sync, etc) can solve the same problems more efficiently. For example, in my specific case, with Paperwork + Nextcloud file sync, my documents are distributed on all my workstations and always available even if offline. Another example is Syncthing which IMO fits the bill for self-hosting, but doesn't fit your definition of self-hosted.
No it does not.
Self-hosted implies self-hosted. AFAIK, the end goal is being as autonomous as possible technologically-speaking. Why exclude desktop applications ?
AFAIK, unfortunately Dia hasn't been maintained and hasn't got a new release for a really long time. It's still using GTK2.
You can use du -sh to figure out what's using most of the space. Something along the line of:
sudo -i
du -sh /home /usr /var
du -sh /var/*
du -sh /var/log/*
# etc
If it's one of your log files (likely), you can run something like tail -n 100 /var/log/[culprit] or tail -F /var/log/[culprit] to see what is being flooded in this log file exactly. Then you can try to fix it.
As suggested by others, your processes may be using too much memory. However I would also suggest you keep an eye on the output of dmesg. Maybe one of your disks is failing.
Oh actually if you are worried about vendor lock-in: Meshcentral is opensource. So even if they decide to try something stupid, a fork would be likely to happen.
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My wife and I use a Nextcloud application called Cospend.