For work, Tailscale between vps and server. It works like cloudflare tunnels but doesn’t have the issues with the TOS excluding media streaming etc.

Keeps the internal server relatively safe and we can stream media/serve media content.

Cloudflare is our registrar and dns provider.

Until you need to actually restore a project consisting of multiple TB and it would have been cheaper to get a local backup server.

I work in a TV production company. Masters and rushes are archived to LTO8.

Drives are cheap but a real pain to keep around and you can’t keep them indefinitely.

But you’ll likely want a library. These are expensive. Not necessarily to buy, but to license and get tot software. I think our entire system, (library, 2xlto8 drives, server, software and licenses cost 15-20k)

And we only licensed 25 out of the 50slots. As it’s a real fucker as you have to license the slots twice, once on the library and again in the archive software.

But it’s been an absolute godsend, having archive projects available makes life so much easier.

You can get a a VPS with unlimited bandwidth, I use IONOS at work, it’s a 500mb connection on their end (1gig at work) we have multiple people streaming video/downloading files without issue.

This is a non issue. There are no moving parts, they weight basically nothing the likelihood that they got damaged is extremely low, like basically 0%

You should put a smart plug on your remote server with the bios setting to always power on after power loss.

This won’t help you if you’ve fucked up network settings, but it’s a life saver if your computer locks up or doesn’t come back.

Turn off the smart switch, wait a few seconds and turn it back on again, your computer should start back up.

Same reason people pay for windows instead of using Linux for gaming. You can accomplish the same task on both but one has more support and is more mature.

Plex has more quality of life features than jellyfin. And for most, that is worth the cost and closed source nature of Plex.

If you’re happy with jellyfin there is no need to switch. Especially to free Plex.

It is generally cheaper to pay for hosting if that’s all you’re doing.

You don’t need a GPU to host a server, just a decent cpu and a decent amount of RAM.

I’m not sure how well it works hosting on the same pc as you’re gaming on. I’d expect it would lower performance for both to some degree.

You can use a power calculator to get a rough estimate of the costs.

For example, a pc running 24 hours a day at 0.30/kwh using 150w would cost just under 30 per month.

You are absolutely, categorically not allowed to use Plex or jellyfin or any other media streaming app on cloudflare tunnels unless you are a paid customer hosting your media in cloudflare R2.

Technically I don’t think you’re even allowed to host something like Immich u less your images are stored on R2.

That being said, I haven’t yet heard of anyone having their account banned for doing so.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what you are trying to achieve. And are over complicating things which is confusing everyone.

It would help greatly if you could give some indication of what containers you actually want to use.

From the sounds of it you want a file server which is your nas. Then you want to run an application in a docker container on your Linux machine.

Using Plex as an example, you would mount your Plex directories on your Linux server via NFS, then start the Plex container pointing at the mounted directory on the Linux server.

Nothing would run on your nas apart from the nfs file server.

The image you linked looks a bit more like a distributed worker. I use something similar where one server runs the core services and then I run specific workers on multiple other machines to distribute and increase the processing power. I don’t believe this is what you want to do as if it was, you would probably know it.

Wrong sub really. You’re after things that are specifically not self hosted.

The easiest solution is to pay adobe more money for their cloud storage.

Other solutions would include looking into SharePoint/onedrive/dropbox etc.

Then there are cheaper solutions such as looking into hosted Nextcloud/seafile.

Self hosted seafile is what we went for at work for video files. In the end, you can’t beat on prem for storage density and cost. But we had a 48bay server spare that we are using for storage so only needed to buy drives.

Plex and lidarr is about as close as you can get at the moment.

You can add lists on lidarr and have it auto download music.