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Jellyfin over the internet (startrek.website)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

What’s your go too (secure) method for casting over the internet with a Jellyfin server.

I’m wondering what to use and I’m pretty beginner at this

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

My go to secure method is just putting it behind Cloudflare so people can’t see my IP, same as every other service. Nobody is gonna bother wasting time hacking into your home server in the hopes that your media library isn’t shit, when they can just pirate any media they want to watch themselves with no effort.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Nobody is gonna bother wasting time hacking into your home server

They absolutely will lol. It’s happening to you right now in fact. It’s not to consume your media, it’s just a matter of course when you expose something to the internet publicly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

And this is the start of the longest crypto nerd fight I've seen on Lemmy. Well done, people!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not so much a fight as an exercise in futility lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Well, I might as well put a dog in the fight. I'm considering my final, actually secure deployment of nextcloud.

This discussion has convinced me that a vpn is the only answer.
And almost everyone says wireguard.

K. Thats what I will build.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

It’s not the only answer, but it’s the one that will get you the most secure with the least amount of effort.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Ya. I understand VPN. I do enterprise IT stuff. The things I build assume a secure environment. VPN is step one.
Nailing down a web server on the internet tho ... there's so many ways to attack. There's so many things to secure. And its a bit complex to manage all that.
The nextcloud site covers hardening the server, but doesn't even mention vpn.
I've been watching threads like this. I'm pretty convinced vpn is the answer.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah Nextcloud won’t mention VPN for hardening because the assumption is you want it publicly accessible.

I have a number of things publicly accessible and there are a number of things I do to secure them. crowdsec monitoring and blocking, a reverse proxy with OIDC for authentication, a WAF in front of it all. But those are only for the things I have exposed because I want other people to use them. If it’s something just for me, I don’t bother with all that and just access it via VPN.

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