Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.

roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• evulhotdog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s always other free options like duckdns, etc.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Duckdns is not stable enough. You’ll have downtime multiple times a year.

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    • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was my go to dynamic DNS provider for years, but after noticing that it would take a good few seconds for my Jellyfin instance (among all the other stuff I self host) to load, I traced the issue down to duck DNS taking too long to resolve.

      I switched to using ddclient in docker which updates my own domain’s records on Cloud flare with my dynamic IP. Now things load instantly.

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    • evulhotdog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a free service, I think that’s fair.

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t say it wasn’t, but it does not make for an acceptable user experience when you are hosting things for friends and family. Most people expect web services to just work.

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• sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tailscale is also free.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Possibly a bit annoying for family members used to just logging in though. It’s an extra step.

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• Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you don’t kind connecting directly with your IP address, you don’t even have to pay a domain. Been doing this for around 2 years

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  • nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just shared in another comment, instead of doing this you can also use playit.gg to create a proxy without requiring an account and also not requiring port forwarding. They lease you a domain name, too

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    • Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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