I have a jellyfin instance running with radarr/sonarr/… for my media needs on my vps.
Problem is that I don’t have huge amount of storages and I would like to expand the storage until I’m able to make a personal server ( I don’t have space where I live for even a mini pc rn ).
From the options that I have been considering the contabo ( my vps provider ) storage expansion are quite costly so I have been thinking about hetzner storage boxes or a backblaze b2 bucket mounted with rclone/s3fs.
The problem with backblaze is that I use hardlinks with my *arr suite so to save up on space so I’m not sure if I can mount them preserving the hard links.
What would be your thought or reccomendation? Should I get a hetzner storage box and just mount it or is there anything else I could do until I manage to make my own personal server?
Most likely, a Hetzner storage box is going to be so slow you will regret it. I would just bite the bullet and upgrade the storage on Contabo.
Storage in the cloud is expensive, there’s just no way around it.
You got a friend to host with?
I have an off site backup with a friend, but I’ve never tried streaming from them.
I’m most likelly the only one among my friends who even own’s a smartphone/pc ( I live in Croatia in countryside where tech is seen as evil )
Be careful that sometimes these providers will shut you down for hosting media servers. Even if your content is not illegally obtained.
HEVC releases. You can also setup Jellyfin to selectively prune media you’ve already watched.
I’m already going with them, guess I will either buy more storage or limit what I have on it.
(I can’t have jellyfin prune media I have watched cause seeding )
(I can’t have jellyfin prune media I have watched cause seeding )
You actually can. Thanks to this TRaSH guide.
Still ocupies the same amount of space, a hardlink just makes it so that if you remove the origin file the link is removed at the same time, bht you can emove it in jellyfin but it will take the same amoun of space.
Edit: either way can’t have jellyfin delete media because I don’t want it to accidentlally remove stuff from ptt’s
Running Jellyfin off of a VPS provider seems needlessly expensive. I guess server hardware has an upfront cost, but having real hardware to host it on at home will be far more cost effective long term, especially for storage.
