Correct. Mine is ‘jelly.domain.com’ which bidirectionally forwards traffic between my domain and my home server.

If documentation is written in a readable and confluent way, RTFM isn’t such a big deal. The issue comes with overly draconian and non-confluent documentation.

I always advocate for HTTPS. I run a caddy proxy and sidestep cloudflare all-together.

https://jellyfin:8096/

Port 8096 is the default HTTP protocol port, and you’re trying to access it via HTTPS. Do you have certificates installed and available for your jellyfin instance? If not, it’s very likely Cloudflare won’t route it correctly.

I’m not saying this is your specific issue, but it’ll be the one after you fix this one at least. You may need to mess with the cloudflare “current encryption mode” to get this to work.

Because there are hot self-hosts in your area.

Am I not allowed to tell people I like the beer I brew?

That’s not really what he’s doing though. It would be like if you pretended to be a customer and drink your own beer in front of actual customers and were like “WOW! This beer is super good! The guy who made it has a really big dick!”

It’s just shitty to do because it’s sheistery as fuck.

Plex employees totally have the right to review Plex in the store. But they should be expected to advertise that they work for Plex…because he didn’t the review loses any credibility that it had previously.

Duct-tape that shit to the inside of your case. lol

To put this into perspective for you, if your NAS sits at idle for 90% of the time (probably true) and an older CPU is 50w (kinda high, but maybe) and a newer CPU is 15w, over an entire year it will save you around 305.76 kWh. Average price per kWh in the USA is 12.89¢. So over a year a new CPU can reasonably save you around $39.41. So it’s not nothing, but it’s nothing crazy, but lower idle wattage = lower temp = components last longer, which is the real savings.

If an older CPU is only gonna last you 5 years, when a new might last 10, you’re going to save almost $400 in energy and generally a CPU today is going to be cheaper than a CPU in 10 years (probably). So it makes sense to spend an extra $200 on a newer CPU and still net a $200 savings over 10 years vs the older CPU.

I quickly got pissed at synology and QNAP and just started making my own shit.

It sucks, because I really like Synology’s ecosystem–but I don’t buy vendor lock-in devices. Luckly we have arc that lets you use SynologyOS on bare metal. If you get get it working with your hardware it’s badass.

Why they don’t sell home server licenses for SynologyOS is beyond my understanding. It’s a really nice little OS and is specifically designed for NAS.

I’ve tried TrueNAS, Rockstor, Openfiler (iSCSI), EasyNAS, and a few others and TrueNAS is easily the favorite. Running it alongside Proxmox is ideal if your server is beefy enough.

gPing: https://github.com/orf/gping

It’s great!

This is mind-blowing to me. I’ve been using them for several months now and not had a single issue yet. I feel like a dick suggesting them as a provider when people are having issues with them, but I’ve not had a single one.

This is a ping graph over an hour directly connected to my VPS with them: https://x0.at/daqx.png

The connection speed isn’t stellar by any means, certainly well below the advertised–but they’re shared VPS, so that’s really to be expected. My uptime is 38 days since I last restarted my server because of a DDoS. The benchmarks were underwhelming, but considering I’m paying like, $2-3/mo for them, I’m okay with it. I even use this server to as a reverse_proxy for Jellyfin and it works just fine, no issues whatsoever. Transferred over 260GB in the past few days alone streaming HD content.

I’m looking hard for flaws but they’re no better, but no worse than any provider I’ve ever had. 🤷‍♂️

In your experience, what is the best way to go about this?

RSS feeds are static files with formatted XML list items. When a feed is updated to include a new XML list item, the reader application notifies users who are subscribed that there’s been a change. There are actually no moving parts to RSS feeds, which is what makes them so popular. RSS feed applications simply loads an XML feed and counts the number of XML objects. When the application checks again, if there are new objects, then the feed has been updated and you get your little notification.

That’s it. It’s a static file (like HTML), and it works like magic. You don’t need any software or libraries to create an RSS feed over and above being able to serve static XML.

So unless you’re updating your feed several times per day, I would just do it by hand. Maybe write a little helper script to scratch out the formatted XML based on input.

Do I have to make them myself by hand and put them in an /rss/ directory in the root of my blog?

You can, but it’s really not necessary. If you check around github you can find a ton of projects that help you create RSS feeds.

People seem to really like 1Panel.

I paid $100 to play Forza Horizon on my own device too - should that have been free?

This is a complete false equivalence and I feel that you know that. The idea of a console is to expand it by buying new games. That’s not unexpected.

Your entire argument seems to be that software should be free

I am a software developer. The argument isn’t that software should be free. The argument is that this is an exceptionally poor business model and as a developer I’m disgusted that people are defending it. The VC which owns Plex and other VCs will use this “logic” that you have to move the goal posts further, and further, and further, and further until there’s no such thing as free software anymore. And I think that’s fucked up.

At the end of the day you’re paying twice to avoid buying IP. Just fucking buy the IP if you’re going to be stupid. Movies are like $12. At $250 you’re paying $2.10/mo in addition to your hosting costs.

Just go buy 20 movies for the same price. It’s so dumb.

VMs become really slow and laggy as soon as my SabNZBd starts downloading something

Because you’re saturating your connection. lol.

No other solution exists that is as easy as Plex and as secure as Plex.

Entrenchment. This is a profoundly absurd statement.

I paid like $100 for a lifetime Plex Pass like 10 years ago.

You paid $100 to access software hosted on your own devices. That’s wonderful you think that’s a great idea. I’m sure the Plex devs love you and would kiss you right on the mouth.

They sign in and they can stream from everyones libraries. No VPNs needed, no other hoops.

Because you’re vendor locked in… lol.

But paying for the ongoing maintenance of software isn’t some evil thing, even if I self host it.

But that’s not what you’re paying for. You’re paying for access to that software…

Syncplay requires adequate hardware and network. Especially if you’re trans coding at the same time. You’re trans coding for 2 people at once, and depending on your setup sending to each person at different rates. It’s hard to coordinate that.

Cloudflare is a DNS provider, DDoS protection provider, tunnel provider, etc. They are not a hosting provider. How is using cloudflare somehow discounting the self-host experience?

It’s the #2 DNS domain registrar in the world right now. It’s not weird at all that most people would use it…luddite you may be.