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.

  • bktheman@awful.systemsEnglish
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    3 days 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!

    • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fishEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      Jellyfin is not designed to be exposed directly. It can be but I wouldn’t recommend it. If you are insistent on doing it, I would absolutely recommend engine X reverse proxying with a rate limit to prevent any brute force attacks as well as hiding your family’s account on the login screen so not just anyone can see them. Also remember you need an SSL certificate which you can either self-sign or get from a free CA like let’s encrypt.

      Tail scale works quite well but can be limiting in speed. Your family does not need any technical knowledge. They just sign in on the app and you can add their account to your tail scale domain. Keep in mind you may need to pay if you add more than three, I believe, users.

      The third and best option for you in my opinion would be a VPN. It doesn’t suffer from the same speed issues that tailscale does. Technical setup would be a bit more difficult than tail scale, but you can do it on your family’s device once and it should just always work. Youll need port forwarding, but that’s really easy. One thing though, your internet service provider might change your IP address periodically. So you might want a domain name and dynamic DNS, which I would suggest you get from a service called FreeDNS. Like in the name, everything is free, unless you choose to donate , of course. They have it very intuitively laid out where you can use CRON to run a script periodically that just sends a curl ping to their servers so that they know what your new IP address is if it changes. It’s a pretty simple setup.