hosting open multimedia library safely

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cannis@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

i have a collection of media i want to share on a request basis, i.e give specific people access to the full collection on request, but i’ve never hosted any service open to the wider net, so i’m quite wary of any potential risks, mainly getting a letter from my isp for uncommon data usage or opening my network to any security risks, as i share it with other people and don’t want them to get affected in any way.

i’m aware the best choice for anyone overtly worried with security would be to upload it all to a cloud service, but due to my currency’s exchange rate to the dollar most services are unfortunately out of my budget.

creating a site for it would be a good option, but some of the items in the collection could cause copyright issues that could get the site taken down if reported.

any help/ideas are greatly appreciated, as i’m kinda out of them at the moment

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skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Are these people you trust? I would do Jellyfin and expose it to them via tailscale. Might be annoying for them to have to run tailscale but no chance I’m serving media directly from my house.

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- cannis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  mostly yes, due to the topic and where the link will be shared i can’t imagine there’ll be any intentional bad actors, though there’s always a chance. jellyfin would be perfect, but one of the most important collections is a series of periodicals/magazines that afaik aren’t supported natively or by any plugin.
  
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  - Static_Rocket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What format are they in? Jellyfin does support some of the common eBook formats. jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/books
    
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housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Check out ZeroTier or Tailscale. Either one of these options would be your best bet.

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- cannis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  good idea, i’ll check them out
  
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President_Pyrus@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe Plex or Emby?

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InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Plex, expose port 32400, require encryption.

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clover@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Unfortunately I don’t have a single host solution (beyond a reverse proxied ftp). But I use plex to host music, audiobooks, movies and TV and Calibre, Calibre-web for text based materials.

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chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If pre-built media server solutions doesn’t work for your use case, then you’d need to create a custom site.

For the most part, ISPs tends to care more about:

Covering their butt legally — if they don’t know you’re engaging in anything like piracy, then it’s not really their concern; and

Ensuring their network stability — if you’re within your contractual usage limits and not using disproportionate amount of traffic causing other customers problem, then your network security is your problem.

As such, as long as the intended sharing audience are limited to only people you trust, and you put the content behind authentication w/ encryption (I.E. https), no one other than the intended recipient would know what you’re sending over the wire. That is as long as none of your users leak their credentials/report you for the content you’re sharing… which, a media server solution wouldn’t protect you from either.
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