Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

Post by franga2000 » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 9:07 AM UTC

luplex wrote: post #83

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Because managing the correct way to handle downtime and how to respond to problems is vastly different when serving one person that will generally be actively using the device less than half the time of the day or far less, and serving thousands or millions of people using it such that at any one moment multiple people might be actively using it. > Edit: Brainstorming here: specifically, I'd like a more accessible UI…

I think of it more like a pickup truck: It's easy to drive and gives consumers all the cargo space they would ever need. Not everyone needs to run Netflix's backend. But for things like a blog, an email server, a matrix server, controls for your smart home, and so on, it would be preferable to have users control them.

Post by java-man » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #30

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any specific feature that would motivate you to shell out fifty bucks? (half-joke)

As a hobbyist that'd be hard to justify. At work I manage two standard LAMP servers only. So I am not really your audience. I think I'd like some kind of alerts on some specific events (disk space, some logs, IDK), systemctl management and status/reporting, some instantaneous “update as I type” filtering/searching in logs, cron and/or systemctl timer management, space usage graphics, booting reports, etc. ... maybe t…

Post by akvadrako » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 1:28 PM UTC

luplex wrote: post #84

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #63

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Cloudron.io and Sandstorm.io both do this well. (Cloudron is very actively maintained with a lot of package updates and a very wide package library and feature set, Sandstorm is open source and adds a layer of security in assuming apps are evil or compromised.) I do think there's probably a good market for a "just plug it into the back of your router" box that has one of these pre-installed and ready to go. Windows H…

Thanks, i did not know about both of these! They do seem like a step in the direction I have in mind!

Post by akvadrako » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

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Unfortunately things are moving very slowly in this area. Sandstorm is basically abandoned and Cloudron is not even open source. Bitnami and Yunohost are also major options. You might like some of the pointers here: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#sel...

> Sandstorm is basically abandoned This is untrue. Sandstorm gets monthly releases, and new features tend to show up every couple months or so. Several major improvements to the platform are in the works at the moment. It's definitely true we could use more help, but it's still probably the most secure way to self-host cloud services for personal use. > Cloudron is not even open source True, though it's probably the…

Post by ocdtrekkie » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 3:43 AM UTC

akvadrako wrote: post #127

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> Sandstorm is basically abandoned This is untrue. Sandstorm gets monthly releases, and new features tend to show up every couple months or so. Several major improvements to the platform are in the works at the moment. It's definitely true we could use more help, but it's still probably the most secure way to self-host cloud services for personal use. > Cloudron is not even open source True, though it's probably the…

I'm not recommending any of these; I think it's best to just run services manually - with one VPS, Docker and something like Caddy the pain isn't that large. It would be great if Sandstorm could get enough attention to thrive because it looked promising, but the activity of the blog¹ doesn't give me much hope. Since 2019 when it announced the hosting was shutting down there have been just 4 posts and apparently no ma…