inamin

no big reason really. just like FOSS solutions and keeping things simple. Plex has gone beyond simple (some might say complex. too much online tv crap which confuses the family when they just want to watch local content. It’s not a huge deal breaker, hence the slow migration to jellyfin. no rush, one day kinda thing.

oh hey! It was $670 australian dollars, with no ram, no hdd, no wifi. so bare bones. this was back in October 2021. It’s now a fair bit cheaper. This is the aliexpress link if interested. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003331392517.html?spm=a2g0s.12269583.0.0.60c06558Sa8ykB

• plex (on its way out) (media)

• jellyfin (not yet migrated across) (media)

• vault warden (password manager)

• nextcloud (photo storage, secondary to one drive)

• home assistant (smart home hub controller thing) vault warden is actually hosted in a container in home assistant.

• nginx pm (proxy manager)

• octoprint also sits on the server (3d print server)

all run under proxmox in a variety of containers and vms. hardware is a ryzen 5 something mini PC from aliexpress with 32gb ram, 2 * 1tb nvme hdd in zfs raid for vms. It’s fast, and silent, and cheap to run.

on an old hp n40l microserver I run unraid with a deluge container for torrents. the unraid hosts the storage for plex/jellyfin/nextcloud.

am amazed at the stability of it all. it just works!