Do you use any web ui’s for your Linux server? I’m comfortable managing my server using the command line, but I also want a graphical interface that shows an overview of what is running on the server, the way the resources are being used what containers are running and so on. Also file download uploads would be great to have.
What do you recommend which is light and resources and is suitable for less powerful servers with low ram?
So far these are the more interstating tools I’ve found: (they vary in functionality their provide)
CasaOS Cockpit SartOS Orb Kasm
The web UI of Proxmox is really good
Second to that. It’s very rare I need to do anything in cli in proxmox
ssh?
Way too cumbersome to use with a touchscreen
You administer your servers with a touch screen.
No hate as I sometimes use my phone to ssh in to things
htop
btop
btop
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oktop
He wasn’t speaking loudly at all.
I have found Nginx Proxy Manager to be a huge time-saver for configuring nginx and certbot.
Ooooh I’m gonna have to take a look at that
Netdata is great for monitoring
I tried it once the UI is very complicated.
This person gives a good run down of how to integrate NetData + Prometheus + Grafana to create a nice dashboard:
https://noted.lol/netdata-prometheus-and-grafana/
I am not much into those, but got into Netdata, it’s really just a nice information portal which provides way more data than one can use, but they pretty much expose it so you can use it for your purposes. I have it on a few of my systems and like looking at it when they seem slow.
For what I have for my end though - I use Proxmox for my VM’s and then use Portainer for a good rundown of what ports I have available to allocate. But then I also use docker compose files whenever I can so it’s easier to update/deploy as needed.
Just SSH. Every public facing piece of software (I.e. a web interface) adds more complexity for misconfiguration or security vulnerabilities.
You can mount you remote filesystem locally and use your local file manager and text editors to manage most tasks. If you use ansible you can make changes to a local configuration and deploy the state to the server without needing to run anything special on the server side. It is especially effective if you also run docker.
And for monitoring I usually just have a tmux with btop running. Which is fine if you don’t need long term time series data, then you might want to look at influxdb/grafana - but even those I would run locally behind a firewall, with the server reporting the data to the database.
I just use ssh for management. Monitoring is handled by nagios.
I use Froxlor. But it’s less about resources and more about webhosting. Just makes it easier for me to control domains, databases and e-mail addresses.
It’s not as deep in the system like Webmin but still gives me enough control to do special stuff.
Cockpit has been my go too, very quick to just get up and working plus including a web terminal for the rest of what you need.
I tried to install Cockpit on Debian, and it just downloaded an entire Linux Desktop? Really weird, had the configs and open port all but still the UI was not showing.
Might give it another try but would prefer something less resource heavy
“Hey you wanted NetworkManager, right? We’ve decided everyone wants NetworkManager.”
Last time I didn’t use --no-install-recommends
Ooh right! I hate Debian that it does this.
It makes sense in a lot of cases, just not all of them.
Huh, it’s got to be the maintainers who make that list, right? Not the developers?
Either way, that must be an awkward philosophical snarl. “Oh I see we’re running Gnome again.”It was a hyperbole so not really a complete desktop, but a lot of tools that where duplicating others in purpose
I’ve had it cascade and install an entire desktop.
What you want is monitoring: how about looking for monitoring services? I found
monitrecently and would like to try it. Simple SNMP would do too I thinkDo you have links to SartOS and Orb?
I used ArozOS before, but I have now no usecase anymore for UIs for the host OS
Btop tells me everything I need to know, and it does it with style.
I mainly need this when i don’t have access to my own laptop and ssh keys.
Wait, wait, wait. If you want something publicly accessible most of the solutions in this thread would be a Bad Idea™️. Don’t expose anything that could possibly make changes to the system to the Internet.
You could use a hardware key for ssh with a passphrase protected key. I use a solo key v1 myself. There are even keys that let you enter a pin on the device instead of the computer, so you don’t have to worry about key loggers. And you can set up Sudo to work with a key too.
I’m headless and mostly use containers, so I run lazy docker
How did you write this comment, Headless Horseman? 🎃
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What I meant is that how could you use Lemmy without a head, but thanks anyway.
Ok well
A bit off-topic, but why do many self hosting-related stuff tries to “reinvent the wheel” so to speak with things that exists even on smart tvs nowadays? Even then, who is gonna edit videos (for example) on a smart tv? “Oopsie, time to get my mouse and keyboard and do some heavy video editing on my TV!”
@ontopic, eh.
btopis enough for me as well. Maybeglancesif I’m feeling “haxxor” enough. :^)A lot of my motivation for starting random useless side projects is unfortunately “because I can” and the learning experience from using a new framework or library.
Eh, I see your point.
