Appears to be Hetzner for now, wouldn’t be surprised if all VPS get affected eventually.

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I’m curious, just checked out their site.

I’m a little alarmed at needing to modify SSL and port forward and all that shit. My experiences haven’t been great with port forwarding in the past.

In short jelly fin doesn’t seem as easy as you are all making it out to be.

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That’s only if you want to watch it outside your home network, and either way I would recommend not just opening a port to the world like that. I’d say to use Tailscale (which is trivially easy to install) for remote viewing.

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I will check into this Trailscale. Thanks!

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In short jelly fin doesn’t seem as easy as you are all making it out to be.

It does definitely require a bit more work, especially because Plex does things like authentication and network access for you, but that’s exactly why all of this drama got kicked up in the first place. Plex doesn’t want to get into legal troubles, however unlikely that may be, for providing access to whatever content people are hosting. It isn’t true self-hosting.

True self-hosting requires work and a small amount of technical knowledge, but IMHO it’s worth it for the freedom, privacy, and control.

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Yes you’re totally correct, I’ll have to do some more reading.

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You have to port forward for Plex as well.

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No I believe upnp took care of that in some form, Plex sets it up.

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Jellyfin also supports UPnP, but you really shouldn’t be exposing the raw ports to the public anyways.

Ideally, you’d setup Jellyfin and a reverse proxy like SWAG that handles the SSL stuff for you.

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That’s still port forwarding. It’s just automated.

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A well-configured network that follows security best practices should always have UPnP disabled.

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