Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!
RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 3 days agoI thought self hosting was about learning networking basics like DNS and setting up let’s encrypt.
So much whining in here about the most simple stuff being too complex.
Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!
RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 3 days agoI thought self hosting was about learning networking basics like DNS and setting up let’s encrypt.
So much whining in here about the most simple stuff being too complex.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I disagree; Self-hosting is for a variety of things, and plenty of people (in fact, I’d say probably the majority of Plex users) just want to be able to pirate Netflix without a ton of setup.
Is learning some networking inevitable? Yeah, probably. But I also think this xkcd is apt. The reality is that what may be simple for you and me actually requires a lot of studying for a complete novice. Plenty of people will need to google what a port is, let alone how to forward one. And that’s assuming they even know the word “port” to google. Plenty of people won’t even know where to start.
And true novices are hopefully going to be extremely wary of any info they find online; It’s easy to fuck something up without even realizing it, and leave your entire system exposed. Especially when the braindead “lol just forward your Jellyfin port and use your public IP” advice is posted somewhere in every single advice thread.