As the title states I am wondering what would be a good machine to build for my piracy. I am open to buying a used machine on eBay and expanding over time.

The last time I was sailing I had a Dell R610 Server Rack but I don’t have the space for this now. So something that can sit behind a tv stand in the corner next to the router.

  • I would be running Plex / Jellyfin
  • Some kind of torrent software
  • Something for NZBs if still viable
  • then the usual SONARR, RADARR, etc

I would like to be able to let friends connect from outside my house to stream media and allow them access so they can add films and the server goes off and finds them, extracts them, and adds them to the media server.

Thanks.

  • liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Jellyfin offers HTTPS, you just need to specify a certificate. It’s going to be a lot easier to just setup a web server like nginx and expose that to the internet, probably via port forwarding on your gateway/router. In that case, you can get a free certificate from letsencrypt.

    So, the basic steps are:

    1. Get a domain name
    2. Setup JF server, ensure it works locally
    3. Install a web server and set it up to proxy traffic to JF
    4. Expose the web server ports 80 and 443 to the internet
    5. Setup letsencrypt with automatic renewal

    This might sound like a lot of work, but at least you own your data and service. Plex can and will block accounts, rendering servers basically useless.

    • bktheman@awful.systemsEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Thanks, you and others in this thread are the first people to ever tell me about this.

      Everyone is always saying tailscale, but that’s too complicated and restrictive for my family.

      I’m not afraid of port forwarding and dynamic DNS, I’ve played with it before. My main concern is just doing it safely, not exposing something to the Internet that wasn’t designed to be exposed. Security risk, and all that.

      Obviously a VPN is the safest way. But as long as JF is reasonably robust and designed to be exposed, I’m happy with that. I just literally didn’t know it was designed that way.

      Thanks!