The only reason to expose it raw to the internet is because your hosting a piracy service.
You can easily keep everything inside of a wireguard VPN and expose nothing directly.
Comment on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoKind of defeats the purpose of Plex and Jellyfin.
seralth@piefed.seralth.com@piefed.seralth.com 3 weeks ago couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
How do I get my grandparents tv on a vpn
peppericecream@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You could put a Site2Site VPN on their router and your router. Bonus points if you use firewall rules to allow only your media server instead of your whole network.
jpaskaruk@growers.social 3 weeks ago @couldhavebeenyou @Seralth If they have internet, you don't really need to. Get a seedbox account at ultra.cc, which also allows you to install the *arr suite and Seerr as well as your choice of Plex or Jellyfin.
Once that's all setup (it's a bit of effort, particularly the arr setups), the Plex/Jellyfin server is exactly like a private netflix, which you can use Seerr to add basically any show or movie you want to it.
This is much better than trying to set them up on a vpn that you won't be there to handle the problems.
That said, ultra.cc also provides Wireguard as an installable app, so you can connect via wireguard, if necessary.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ah ok. So to avoid them having to access mine over a vpn, I just get my grandparenys to checks notes rent a seedbox and host their own server Brilliant I’ll get gramps some docs so he can read up on how to roll his own shit then
peppericecream@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
*defeats your purpose of Plex and Jellyfin
I just want a media server. I have no use case to make it available to the public internet.
baddu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And who the fuck are you to speak for me? Some of us actually leave the basement.