Apparently my internet was out for the last 20 minutes or so, and I’ve been browsing Lemmy, working on a doc in Nextcloud/OnlyOffice, and watching a movie on Jellyfin without even noticing.

I just happened to notice that the Matrix rooms I was in were all quiet.

  • overtinker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m also sharing some of my services but with family members and my upload is at around 10mbps. How do you go about sharing Jellyfin specifically with your friends over a VPS? I mostly just worry about storage space as it gets incredibly expensive to host media in the cloud.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve got Jellyfin on a cheap ($20/year) VPS, and used SSHFS to attach it to some external hard drives attached to a Raspberry Pi. My upload speed is only 10 mbps, but that seems enough for most movies and TV shows, and multiple users can watch simultaneously via SyncPlay. Transcoding works too (up to 1080p)

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        1 year ago

        Where did you get that cheap of a VPS? Either i’m bad at searching the web or I am missing something, but I can’t find anything below 5$/month (60$/y) even with very poor specs (1 shitty cpu + 10gb storage + 512mb ram)…

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          1 year ago

          I found a deal for a Racknerd KVM VPS on lowendbox.com–I’m not seeing the same one, but similar offers pop up often!

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      1 year ago

      Jellyfin runs locally, it’s just accessible through a reverse proxy that I have running on the VPS. It’s not really practical to run it on a VPS since hosted storage ends up being a lot more expensive and my library is relatively big. Bandwidth hasn’t been a huge issue so far though as not too many people use Jellyfin at once. I could see it becoming a problem though if I hosted too many of the other services locally too, like Nextcloud, a Minecraft Server, Teamspeak (for some friends who are eternally stuck in the 2000s), gittea and several more.

      I’d also need to run a second machine to host docker containers on or replace my NAS completely with something more powerful, which likely wouldn’t make sense economically as I live in a place where electricity is relatively expensive.