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Is they're an easy way to make my Jellyfin accessible outside of my home network for free? (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have docker installed, but only have a vague idea of how it works.

Back in the day, I would just port forward, but even then, I would need a static IP somehow.

I have heard a reverse proxy is an option, but that is an entirely new topic to me.

Surely there is an easy way to access Jellyfin outside of my home network that I'm just missing.

*Edit: I am blown away by all the help and support! I currently have tailscale running, and I'm in the process of purchasing a domain.

Thanks everyone!

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[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean not for free, but I did it for cheap. A good domain can cost you $5 a year, and you simply route your jellyfin to a sublevel like watch.mydomain.com

Fun part is you can also route your sonarr like sonarr.mydomain.com

[–] Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Any suggestions on where to start when looking into buying and setting up a domain?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

A cheap way to start is noip.com. You can get a domain name for free, you just need to check in every 3 months to say you are still using it. It's big enough that many routers support it.

After 2 years of checking in every 3 months I paid for their next tier of service where you don't have to check in and get multiple domains etc. So their free service marketing worked.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've been with NameCheap for over a decade. They're a relatively quiet company that's been around a while.

They've never done anything to make me want to change providers. Have my email through them as well. Good uptime. Ok-ish prices. Good customer service the one time I've needed it. Web site takes some getting used to, but it's also never changed since I started using them.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

Only thing they did once was lock me out of my account with endless CAPTCHAs, even with 2FA enabled.

Eventually they fixed it

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I'd recommend buying a domain through Cloudflare. Once you have one, you can create subdomains and point them to services running on your home server. Cloudflare's dashboard makes the DNS side pretty straightforward.

I mean I cheated and used chatgpt to help figure it out. But it's more or less 3 programs max running on whatever server you're using and using the cloudflare UI to redirect the traffic to the right place