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Is this a vibe coded npm app that’s purpose is to avoid reading and understanding your own compose files?

What made you switch to it over tailscale+headscale? Currently that’s been doing everything I need without issue.

Yeah I didnt abandon Plex because I couldn’t afford it. I have a number of gripes with plex but as long as it remained free I had no strong motivated to get rid of it. Now that I would have to pay though I have no interest in keeping it around. I am quite happy with jellyfin even if it may lack polish on some of its facets and I regularly accept inconvenience to uphold my own operating philosphies.

Correct. Remote streaming used to be free. That changed…in April? I don’t remember the exact date but it was announced earlier this year and has been slowly rolling out. Now you either have to have a Plex pass for your server or each user who wants to remote stream has to pay for a remote watching subscription and show in OPs screenshot.

There are of course ways to get around this such as all your users being on a VPN so as far as Plex can see its “internal”.

Yes, however using the relay is not a prerequisite to being required to pay for a Plex subscription. That is what he is trying to say.

I can run Plex on the open internet and not use their relay at all, however if the IP of the viewer is not an interal IP on the same subnet as Plex (I assume the same subnet is required) then you’ll be greeted with the Plex paywall.

You are absolutely correct that it costs money to run a relay, but the relay has nothing to directly do with the paywall.

DC my server is at is shutting down so I have to bring everything home. Conveniently I just got hooked up with symetric 1G fiber so that’s not too much of a problem now thankfully.

Currently exploring docker swarm as a method of using one of my external VPSs to route all external traffic though it to my hardware at home on my tailnet.

Swarm isn’t required for this but figured I’d play around with it.

True though that’s less server operator and more “just being helpful to your mom”. That said it seems nowadays that a Jellyfin app is available on most devices/ecosystems (or maybe I just don’t have experience with enough devices to have an accurate idea).

Jellyfin is a fully self hosted drop in. That means it’s up to the server operator to handle everything. You would still tell your mom to just install the Jellyfin app on her TV with the one additional step in your server address which you would tell her.

But yes, you as the operator have to do some extra things like implementating a reverse proxy and if hosting out of your home make necessary network configuration changes to accommodate this access.

No i mean instead of OpenVPN i would recmmend you look into using Tailscale. If you want to fully self host it then you can run the open source control plane calles Headscale instead of relying on Tailscale’s (the company) free service tier om their own control plane.

The Tailscale client and server are also open source.

You’ll always have bots knocking on your doors. In general keep the doors locked and you are fine.

I highly recommend trying tailscale with headscale over openvpn.

There is a somewhat native file editor in nextcloud but for your needs I would recommend setting up integration with either OnlyOffice or Collabora (LibreOffice). I am currently using OnlyOffice and while my utilization isn’t much or often it seems to do what it should without any fuss.

Haven’t had any issues whatsoever.

I’ve done nothing special regarding security and have it exposed to the public internet. I intend on having fail2ban look at its logs but I’ve not yet set that up (entirely out of laziness).

If you want to be very secure I would recommend having it entirely behind a VPN. I personally use tailscale+headscale for my internal only services but like I said I have Nextcloud publicly exposed as I want to be able to access it from potentially any device.

As far as the “what you want” stuff goes, Nextcloud can do all of it and I use it for exactly that.

That is not correct. A VPN would be one method but you can also just expose the service to the internet in a number of ways and accomplish the same thing Plex provides.

No. You have to expose your server to the internet in some way bit you don’t have to set up some sort of VPN. There are plenty of people who will tell you how awful of an idea it is but if you make smart choices it’s not a big deal.