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

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[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I will check into this Trailscale. Thanks!

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to port forward for Plex as well.

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks, I just realized what community I was in lol. Stumbled in here from the everything tab, so now I understand the technical stuff!

I'll stick around here a while you'll have me!

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Haha, welcome! Always good to have new people come in and potentially start their self-hosting journey. It can be quite fun if you have the time and interest.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome! Consider a VPN if you need remote access, unless you plan to share it publicly with a lot of people. It's a bit more work, but safer than directly exposing your PC to the internet.

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I actually already have a PIA subscription that I use frequently

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

In this case, it would be a VPN hosted on your home server/router or a VPS. A commercial VPN wouldn't help you here, although you can use it in combination.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, not sure if I have that then.