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  • Xanza@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldNew to self-hosting
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    2 days ago

    Here ya go: https://selfh.st/apps/

    Will cover about 90% of your bases there. You can even look up proprietary software and it will show you self-hostable alternatives.

    My goto would be wireguard, is that still a good option?

    Yes.

    Private cloud/File server

    https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=File+Sharing

    Is a local video streaming app actually useful for a rare watcher of movies etc, or can they be streamed directly from the file server?

    You can do it any number of ways. I have it setup a pretty cool way, I think. I leave my PC on all the time. I also have a home NAS with all my media files on it. I host Jellyfin server on my PC and in the Jellyfin settings link to the network location of the files (\\nas\media\tv, etc). Works great, especially for transcoding because I run the server on my Windows PC, it gets access to my GPU for transcoding. Really great setup I like to think. Only drawback being you have to leave your PC on all the time, which doesn’t bother me.

    Is Docker the way to go for everything? or just install on the machine directly?

    There are alternatives to docker, like LXC but they’re not as widely used as Docker. So unfortunately…

    Another option for you could be Hyper-V if you don’t mind using your PC to run containers. I like it better than running docker containers.



  • You’re not having issues because it’s very likely it’s limited by your ISP regardless. There’s simply no way a consumer ISP (or VPN) is allowing 1200 simultaneous UDP connections. So you could likely set it to a million and have no issues. Because you’re being limited to ~250-500 at the protocol level by your ISP/VPN. lol

    Situations like this, torrent priority is even more important because there’s a high likelihood you’re not able to connect to peers you otherwise would be able to if you were using priorities…


  • Matching 500 episodes (e.g. Looney Tunes and Disney shorts) manually isnt fun.

    With tools like TinyMediaManager, why in the absolute fuck would you do it manually?

    At this point, it sounds like you’re just bad at media management more than anything. 1080p h265 video is at most between 1.5-2GB per video. That means with even a modest network connection speed (500Mbps lets say) you can realistically download 5TB of data over 24 hours… You can redownload your entire media library in less than 4-5 days if you wanted to.

    So why spend ~$700 on 2 20TB drives, one to be used only as redundancy, when you can simply redownload everything you previously had (if you wanted to) for free? It’ll just take a little bit of time.

    Complete waste of money.











  • Data hoarding random bullshit will never make sense to me. You’re literally paying to keep media you didn’t pay for because you need the 4k version of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 even though it was a shit movie…

    Grab the YIFY, if it’s good, then get the 2160p version… No reason to datahoard like that. It’s frankly just stupid considering you’re paying to store this media.