People seem to really like 1Panel.

I paid $100 to play Forza Horizon on my own device too - should that have been free?

This is a complete false equivalence and I feel that you know that. The idea of a console is to expand it by buying new games. That’s not unexpected.

Your entire argument seems to be that software should be free

I am a software developer. The argument isn’t that software should be free. The argument is that this is an exceptionally poor business model and as a developer I’m disgusted that people are defending it. The VC which owns Plex and other VCs will use this “logic” that you have to move the goal posts further, and further, and further, and further until there’s no such thing as free software anymore. And I think that’s fucked up.

At the end of the day you’re paying twice to avoid buying IP. Just fucking buy the IP if you’re going to be stupid. Movies are like $12. At $250 you’re paying $2.10/mo in addition to your hosting costs.

Just go buy 20 movies for the same price. It’s so dumb.

VMs become really slow and laggy as soon as my SabNZBd starts downloading something

Because you’re saturating your connection. lol.

No other solution exists that is as easy as Plex and as secure as Plex.

Entrenchment. This is a profoundly absurd statement.

I paid like $100 for a lifetime Plex Pass like 10 years ago.

You paid $100 to access software hosted on your own devices. That’s wonderful you think that’s a great idea. I’m sure the Plex devs love you and would kiss you right on the mouth.

They sign in and they can stream from everyones libraries. No VPNs needed, no other hoops.

Because you’re vendor locked in… lol.

But paying for the ongoing maintenance of software isn’t some evil thing, even if I self host it.

But that’s not what you’re paying for. You’re paying for access to that software…

Syncplay requires adequate hardware and network. Especially if you’re trans coding at the same time. You’re trans coding for 2 people at once, and depending on your setup sending to each person at different rates. It’s hard to coordinate that.

Cloudflare is a DNS provider, DDoS protection provider, tunnel provider, etc. They are not a hosting provider. How is using cloudflare somehow discounting the self-host experience?

It’s the #2 DNS domain registrar in the world right now. It’s not weird at all that most people would use it…luddite you may be.

I started to follow a guide (& doing a bunch of googling + chatGPT) for setting Jellyfin remote access for my parents. And this is where I’m a bit out of my depth […] I have a dynamic IP […] duckDNS path

Stay away from DuckDNS. Used to be fabulous but now it’s incredibly overused and very unstable. Works, then just stops for a period of time. Check out HurricaneElectric. Any A record can be enabled as DDNS that you can update with just curl. It’s great. I’ve been using them for about 10 years now without issues. They were down one time like… 5 years ago for several hours, and that was it.

Also as a side note: I see people talk about Caddy as a reverse proxy for extra security, but what does it do?

This option is nice if you self-host a web server with no bandwidth restriction. You setup caddy, update your DNS to register your home IP on X domain. Point jelly.x.domain to whatever your public IP is, with the port as a reverse proxy, then your IP is reachable via jelly.x.domain but it’s not a great setup for you because of the dynamic IP unless you do a bunch of setup to ensure it routes.

IMO the best option would be;

1. Install jellyfin server
2. Open port 8096 on your router for your jellyfin server IP
3. Create a jellyfin user for your parents, and enable remote connection
4. Setup DDNS (I highly suggest he.net) and point your domain to your IP
5. Setup cron job to update your DDNS record with he.net every hour or so using curl
6. Setup jellyfin for your parents TV or whatever device they’ll use to watch it
7. Login and enjoy

Preach, brother! Preach!

Weird. Never had an issue with syncplay… What’s your setup look like?

Seems like it was only a matter of time.

20% more will jump to Jellyfin. The other 80% will entrench and talk even more about how great Plex is. I mean Jesus, $250 to watch pirated movies. lol wtf It’s also fucking wild to me that people are defending a monetization model that is on self hosted hardware. Like, I gotta pay for my server and then a license to avoid buying DVDs. Fuck it, at this point just buy the fucking movie.

Ya’ll are brain dead. Plex loves you tho.

Nice! I was unaware that you could do this. Cheers.

Do you have a proper backup solution? If you have a catastrophic data error, can you still recover? If not, just choose the hosted infrastructure.

Self-hosting is great. I love it. But when it comes to critical things that you absolutely cannot fuck up, I would rather trust a consumer based solution. If you fuck up your passwords and they’re gone, it’s going to hinder you significantly more than losing sleep about some rando having all your passwords if they break scrypt encryption.

By not making them publicly accessible. With Wireguard there’s really no reason.

Setup service to be active on a subnet, enable Wireguard to VPN into the subnet and use the services.