Mondez

Of the options I would say 2 but you forgot option 3, have a hardware router handle it and trunk the ports to the proxmox hosts.

Maybe, but even experienced devs seem to want to fall into the trap of thinking their expertise will mean they can skim review AI code and spot it’s mistakes rather than taking the time to properly review and understand the code. Low effort is low 3ffort regardless of your expertise.

I think anything over the “assisted” threshold in the OP is low effort and should be dumped.

So all the bad things of both, still a proprietary product that you can funnel your cotent through servers you don’t control while simultaneously not being plex.

Those are the the ones that somone has managed to find in closed source software…

I don’t think it is that is more polished, it’s just you pay for them to do the stuff you need to do yourself with reverse proxying, opening ports, securing stuff. This is only an issue if you are sharing outside your network of course.

Why bother self hosting at all then? Paying somone else to do it for you and the deal constantly getting altered is pretty what you signed up for.

That’s because you had somone elses servers doing that part for you.

Hence the term “sunk cost fallacy”.