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Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. (www.plex.tv)
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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Jellyfin is free. Your own domain is like $10 a year or less.

[–] evulhotdog@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s always other free options like duckdns, etc.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Duckdns is not stable enough. You'll have downtime multiple times a year.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

It was my go to dynamic DNS provider for years, but after noticing that it would take a good few seconds for my Jellyfin instance (among all the other stuff I self host) to load, I traced the issue down to duck DNS taking too long to resolve.

I switched to using ddclient in docker which updates my own domain's records on Cloud flare with my dynamic IP. Now things load instantly.

[–] evulhotdog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s a free service, I think that’s fair.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I didn't say it wasn't, but it does not make for an acceptable user experience when you are hosting things for friends and family. Most people expect web services to just work.

I felt it was worth people knowing before setting it up. Cloudflare is also free and all you have to do is pay yearly for a domain. It also has much better uptime.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tailscale is also free.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Possibly a bit annoying for family members used to just logging in though. It's an extra step.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you don't mind connecting directly with your IP address, you don't even have to pay a domain. Been doing this for around 2 years

[–] nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just shared in another comment, instead of doing this you can also use http://playit.gg/ to create a proxy without requiring an account and also not requiring port forwarding. They lease you a domain name, too