Jellyfin is generally just as easy to set up for external access. The only thing you really need to worry about is having a dynamic IP. If you have a domain name, then setting up dynamic DNS is quite straightforward.
The only issue I have with people remotely accessing Jellyfin is that you cannot set a total system bandwidth cap. You can set a per stream cap, but that doesn’t help if you have too many people accessing your server at once.
Sure, but neither are self hosted media servers, and if you can afford/run the one you can afford/run the other. Domain names are cheap as dirt and aren’t all that complicated for anyone running a home server.
I got a free subdomain from freedns.afraid.org and they have a script you can just add to your crontab to periodically check your IP and to update their DNS listing if your ISP changes it
I certainly agree that it adds an element of complexity. I had never dealt with anything like this before and had to learn it, but it really is a pretty easy thing to setup.
Jellyfin is generally just as easy to set up for external access. The only thing you really need to worry about is having a dynamic IP. If you have a domain name, then setting up dynamic DNS is quite straightforward.
The only issue I have with people remotely accessing Jellyfin is that you cannot set a total system bandwidth cap. You can set a per stream cap, but that doesn’t help if you have too many people accessing your server at once.
I’m not trying to sound like a dick but having your own domain name isnt something most people have
Dynamic free domain names are everywhere, and work. Nothing really to setup either.
Sure, but neither are self hosted media servers, and if you can afford/run the one you can afford/run the other. Domain names are cheap as dirt and aren’t all that complicated for anyone running a home server.
trivially easy. cheap
Well perhaps I’ll have to look into it
I got a free subdomain from freedns.afraid.org and they have a script you can just add to your crontab to periodically check your IP and to update their DNS listing if your ISP changes it
Freedns is great but they won’t let you setup https certificates on the free plan, I found that out the hard way.
They do, actually. I use Jellyfin with https certs on a free ddns from desec.io
I certainly agree that it adds an element of complexity. I had never dealt with anything like this before and had to learn it, but it really is a pretty easy thing to setup.
You can easily request a free domain through services like duckdns.org. Might not be the prettiest domain name, but for these purposes it’s fine.
Setting up proper zraid and dealing with Linux to get the server up was much harder than using nginx and buying a $4/yr domain.
Hmm OK, yeah Linux I’m super comfortable with, networking oddly scares me, but maybe I’ll give it a go
It’s not terribly expensive or hard to do.
Maybe time to look into load balancers, e.g. nginx
Regarding domain names: tailscale funnel rocks!