Comment on Ways to Expose Services Publicly
MangoPenguin@piefed.social 1 week agoMost VPS are on 1Gbps connections, but even if it only has 100Mbps that’s plenty.
Comment on Ways to Expose Services Publicly
MangoPenguin@piefed.social 1 week agoMost VPS are on 1Gbps connections, but even if it only has 100Mbps that’s plenty.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Is there a data cap? I’m concerned like they only allow me to pass through like a TB or so of data passing through it within a month. If you have users watching your jellyfin server every day that can surpass your limit.
MangoPenguin@piefed.social 1 week ago
Yes generally around 1TB on cheap plans. That’s a ton of data though for streaming media, if youre moving more than that getting a higher tier VPS would make sense.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Keep in mind that you wouldn’t route local traffic through it, so everything watched at home would be direct and not count.
I have a $5/mo VPS with OVH and they allow unlimited bandwidth within reason. Unless you have multiple households streaming from your server all the time, likely totally fine. If you do end up with one relative streaming 24x7, then I would look at installing the tailscale app on their TV and configuring things to connect that one user direct to your home server.
A VPS takes some learning, but IMHO, it is the “correct” answer and worthile learning.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
How do you set up security on your server with the constant attacks that come with having the server public?
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
There are constant scanners on any site and scrapers on websites, but it is far less of a problem than you would imagine unless you have a big wiki or software forge with hundreds of nested commit history pages for them to spider into.
I also run private servers on hidden subdomains (with wildcard certs and DNS entries), so the low effort scanners never bother them.
DDOS attacks take money, so they aren’t typically going to go after some random homelabber. If it did happen, I would either just shut it off for a while or change the VPs IP. Ovh also has some of its own ddos protection.