This hasn’t been asked in a while, and I really loved reading the last discussion so I’m hoping to kick it off again and see what has changed!
What I’d like to know is:
- What specific products do you wish you could host on your own infrastructure, but the product does not offer such a deployment method
- Do you or would you use the product without being able to self-host? I.E. In its current state
- Do you think your employer, if any, holds the same opinions?
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Google maps alternative that’s as good as Google maps. Its the only service left that has kept me from degoogling 100%
I like Apple Maps, but to completely compete with Google Maps it would need to stop being exclusive for Apple devices. Open Street Maps data quality is very close to Google Maps, but the applications for it themselves aren’t as intuitive and feature rich
Any MDM solution. All self-hosted options that were available (onemdm, flyve) are dead. I’m my own employer, so we definitely agree everything should be self-hosted :)
What does MDM stand for?
What about Connectwise Automate (formerly Labtech)?
Sadly, there will never be a truly self-hosted solution given how the devices in question rely on Google, Samsung, Microsoft or Apple servers to be active and available on initial enrollment. The control plane can be on-prem, but the actual enforcement is done through built-in management APIs that depend on external services.
That said, I created my own zero-cost MDM solution by leveraging Android Enterprise APIs along with Samsung Knox. There’s no pretty UI though - everything is done through API calls using Postman. Enrollment is achieved by scanning a QR code on the device’s first boot. I’m managing ~450 Samsung tablets and a dozen mobile phones using this approach.
hmm, for Apple a MDM Push certificate is the link between the two, for Google the managed play store, neither of these have a “requirement” for a SaaS solution.
both of these are just to connect the device to the MDM platform via a “managment profile” (waves hands), the settings and enforcement is all on the MDM platform.
A very long time ago (the days of the 3G) I had an internal web server that hosted iPhone configuration profiles, it was very (very) “basic”
Granted this is only for Apple (and with a last commit in 2022 might be dead) but is useful for showing what part connects where to do what.
I agree. Literally, everything.
I’m looking into ManageEngine MDM Pro. It only runs on windows tho :-/
I use the self hosted ManageEngine MDM at work and really like it
That’s great. My only complaint is it only runs on windows, but oh well. I’m assuming you guys are using Windows server?
Any priority features of the MDM and how many devices managed total?
I own a small business, 20-30 devices only. But they’re a mix of all possible platforms (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS). Would like to force disk encryption, strong password policy, automatically install/update/configure corporate VPN/mail/etc., prevent use of blacklisted programs, remote wipe of lost/stolen/otherwise compromised devices. I know it’s not feasible with any selfhosted solution, sadly.
Private uncesored version of GPT-4.
I want it to answer questions like:
- give me a step by step guide on how to build a hydrogen bomb using consumer-grade components.
- give me 20 jokes about wokism (I’m semi-woke myself)
- give me 10 jokes that are so horrible, they would put anyone posting them on a watch-list
More realistically, I want it to have access to an entire programming project via IDE
I would love to see a self-hosted VDE solution. We have a ton of VM options so I’d like to see the next logical step.
You might want to look into Kasm
A powerful AI model.
Teams with sharepoint and office functions
Nextcloud with NC Talk and OnlyOffice Plugin.
I never got a love for nextcloud. It fails me every time i try it out.
I am using it hosted (Hetzner) and like it very much. Stable, fast, always available.
Self-hosted alternative to Google Street View (with the ability to upload own street views of course).
This is obviously not possible, as it is a huge undertaking to do that for the whole world. There is “Street View” in Apple Maps as well, btw.
And even if it were possible to “self host” Google Street View, its image dataset is estimated at 115 PB. So you you kinda would need to have a little bit of space on your homeserver.
Not exactly fitting, probably, but self-hosted sync for Chromium browsers. Not xbrowsersync, but full-fledged, like Mozilla’s, with syncing extension settings, sending tabs, etc.
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Google photos (I know about prism and have it, still not the same)
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email… Fuuuck all you spammer asshomes, I just wanna host my own email 😭
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Steam but for my own local games and isos
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maps
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Did I already say email?
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Two for me
Fleetio - with a family member who collects cars and farm vehicles, things like Hammond are not of much use, points if it can integrate withe Traccar
GreatPetCare (Previously PawPrint) given its now free after its sale, we are now the product. Plus it has lost useability IMHO since its change
Sports Organization Management. The only ones I have seen have not had many updates lately, zuluru and doubleheader.
I was able to get zuluru to run via docker but had to really play with it and use older docker images for mysql and its php base image as the repo’s docker compose file relied on latest tags. It has a lot of nice features for managing a team org but its UI is rather simple/dated. https://github.com/Zuluru/Zuluru3
Have not gotten doubleheader up yet but plan to try soon but its repo has not been updated for almost 3yrs. https://github.com/harisjlatif/doubleheader
This is definitely something I figured there would be more self hosted options for, but after searching around, you have a point. Those seem to be the best options and still are lacking/ unstable.
OneNote. Yes, I know, NextCloud, Joplin, etc. But there isn’t really anything with everything - handwriting, voice recognition/dictation, etc.
Sentry, on ARM64 and/or less ram
Maybe try GlitchTip
Tried this, but the UI doesn’t look very polished
Agreed. I like sentry, but requiring 8gb of ram minimum is a bit much for small home servers.
8GB is also just not correct. It’s more like 9.5, and expect even that to crash sometimes. Dunno what the hell they are doing to use so much memory.
Yea it’s pretty excessive for what it is, isn’t worth the resources.
I see this post more open to company selfhosting, whereas the post you mentioned focuses on homelabs. I’ve got both homelab and company servers, and the selfhosted needs differ a lot.
In a while, means they just didn’t bother to look before posting.
From a work perspective, the whole Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including sharepoint, AD, Power Platform, Office Apps.
I know most of it is technically doable from a FOSS perspective, but it’s all so fragmented. I’m starting to really leverage Power Platforms at work now and really hate the fact I’m learning and using MS shite! The documentation is so poor, and the limitations when you hit them are bizarre and often inexplicable :(