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How to monetize services? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by somegeek to c/[email protected]
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Hi guys. how can I monetize my rustdesk servers? like, imagine I tell client X to pay 1$/month for using my server, how can I authenticate users? (prevent others from using the server so only people who are paying can use).

CONTEXT: I live in a country with very limited internet (like china) so using public servers is not good. I would also have to be able to maintain the costs of the server. so this is not illegal and not unethical.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assuming you have more than a handful clients, you'll probably want some sort of CRM/billing system to keep track of who's paid. And then you'll want a centralized IAM tool where you can provision new accounts or deactivate ones that stop paying.

That also depends on whether the underlying service supports some sort of sso/login federation.

You can also just do everything by hand for the beginning, until it takes up too much time.

[–] somegeek 1 points 1 year ago

thanks. rustdesk doesn't have any authentication except for keys, which is generated for each server. someone suggested that I could spin up a server and key for each client.