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Jellyfin on a vps (lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a NAS at home with enough storage? You could use wireguard to setup a vpn tunnel, then mount your NAS's storage on your vps via nfs and using cachefilesd. If your upload speed is sufficient, this can work pretty well without too much waiting for a stream to start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't have anything at home. I barelky have space for a laptop.

I'm literally in my home, just that my home is small af.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Be careful that sometimes these providers will shut you down for hosting media servers. Even if your content is not illegally obtained.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I use Hetzner storage box, mounted with rclone and it works great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

HEVC releases. You can also setup Jellyfin to selectively prune media you've already watched.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 )

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

(I can’t have jellyfin prune media I have watched cause seeding )

You actually can. Thanks to this TRaSH guide.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You asked for a solution for removing unneeded media files while keeping the linked torrents. I gave you one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You got a friend to host with?

I have an off site backup with a friend, but I've never tried streaming from them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean… they’re not totally wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago