I was considering a VPS! That said, if I’m say, accessing my jellyfin library externally through a VPS, wouldn’t that just end up costing ludicrous amounts of money?_
I was considering a VPS! That said, if I’m say, accessing my jellyfin library externally through a VPS, wouldn’t that just end up costing ludicrous amounts of money?_
Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends on your usage, but probably not? If you can transcode on your jellyfin server you’ll be able to serve lower quality versions remotely if you want to save bandwidth… But most VPS’s provide around a terabyte of bandwidth per month by default. If you use more it will cost more. I think it’s usually fairly cheap to get more, but if you’re the only one accessing it you’re probably not going to use that much. Like if you rip a blu-ray you might end up streaming a 50gb or so file for a movie, but that’s only a twentieth of the bandwidth allotted to you (roughly)… Plus if you reencode it to something smaller before putting it on your jellyfin server, or if your jellyfin server can transcode fast enough you can send a smaller video stream to your mobile devices or whatever.
I don’t either, that article was just what I found that mentioned setting up Tunnelbroker with a dynamic IP.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wow, that’s incredible! I figured it would be much more expensive so I never really looked into it.
Well off the top do you have any reliable VPS recommendations? I think that would solve all the issues I have in regards to my double NAT. I have a synology 1621+ with a pretty weak CPU. And my whole library is in 4k, lots of remuxes as well. It may not be able to handle it lol. Poor thing. Even so, 1tb would be more than sufficient in 99% of circumstances.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
May depend what you want, and what operating system you would run on it. The Hetzner ARM servers are pretty cheap for what you get (and it looks like they include 20TB of bandwidth). I’ve been pretty happy with Lunanode. I think people often look here for deals: lowendbox.com they often recommend Racknerd boxes… I think there’s some affiliation with Racknerd and lowendbox.com, but I threw something on a Racknerd machine recently and have had a good experience so far.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I actually settled my email thing. I really just wanted an email masking/email aliasing service and proton pass has a really robust one built in. I believe it’s SimpleLogin backed since Proton bought them recently. It’s a great integration, now when I sign up for any website it genereates .@passmail.net or something like that. Turns out lots of the premier pw managers have integration with email masking now.
Thanks a million for all your advice! I think I have a solid way forward for my double nat issue. I have a solid basis for research on this now. You rock :)