Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoBecause you are hosting the server software on your own hardware. That’s literally self-hosting. Plex provides a way to remotely access your server through their own network as well, which is optional.
On a side note: you can remotely access any service running on home network via Tailscale[1] / Cloudflare Tunnel. Your services are never exposed on Internet. Moreover, you don’t need to rely on Plex for that.
[1] tailscale.com [2] developers.cloudflare.com/…/connect-networks/
Tailscale is going public, so I don’t really them anymore. I used Cloudflare tunnels for a while, but I strongly dislike being dependent on them for accessing my own network, and I don’t like how they clamped down on “anti-piracy”. There are some legitimate sites I still can’t access (dirtbike parts and whatnot) because Cloudflare straight up blocks access to them.
Go with pangolin. You can easily host the control layer either on a cheap vps or your own internet exposed server. Same features as tailscale although with a bit more complexity.
Tailscale is going public, so I don’t really trust them anymore
Even if the source code is open?
Android is open source and look where that got it.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The problem with Plex is it isn’t fully hosted. Plex controls user passwords. You can’t use it without logging into their servers.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 day ago
You can access it through your local network without authentication. Add a vpn and you got the same setup Jellyfin fans will praise
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not really. The first local login to configure it requires a Plex account. And that account times out maybe monthly? It seems every few months when I remote to the Plex server it wants the plex account to login.