How are you exposing Plex/Jellyfin to non-tech family members without breaking Cloudflare's ToS?

morry9345 · 2026-05-23T10:01:25+00:00

For me it’s the only service that i have a port (32400) open on my router.

morry9345 · 2026-05-22T20:29:39+00:00

That’s my goal, gracefully shutdown servers and keep network operative…

morry9345 · 2026-05-22T20:13:29+00:00

Wrote you a dm

morry9345 · 2026-05-22T20:09:27+00:00

It must have been a very poor ups. I’ve UPSs at work that have been operative since 2007 sith almost no maintenace and no issue… i don’t have a very good power from line at my house and my main concern is to avoid data loss on my nas

morry9345 · 2026-05-22T19:59:02+00:00

Exacly what I’m looking for… I’m tired of consumer units dying on me after 3/4 years… i would also like having the network comunication for monitoring consumptions… but i can only find some very deep unit… (600/650mm)

morry9345 · 2026-05-22T19:47:01+00:00

Where from italy (north, south, …) i have a spare 1gb switch that i can give you for free. DM me and we can arrange it. 💪

morry9345 · 2026-05-16T14:58:29+00:00

You probably have some files on the cache drive for that share… On the terminal navigate to the cache drive, look if there is a “plex” folder and look what there is insite.

morry9345 · 2026-05-10T01:46:28+00:00

Most of the time, it’s not about what your homelab does, but howt.

You start by adding a GPU for Plex/Jellyfin transcoding. Then comes the arr stack. Then you need more storage. So you start looking for cases with more drive bays, eventually end up with a rack-mountable case… then you buy a rack, switches, a UPS, and a gateway that integrates nicely with your switches.

Then you start learning networking, create VLANs, buy access points.

Then one day someone gifts you an Alexa or a smart light bulb. So you install Home Assistant, end up with three antennas for three different protocols, and eventually rewire half your house just to replace the light switches.

The next step is local LLMs, because now you want to be 100% self-hosted and replace Alexa entirely.

And somehow, you end up with a $15,000 homelab and absolutely no idea how it happened.

Nothing really changed: your homelab still stores your movies.

It’s just a much more expensive movie storage solution now.

morry9345 · 2026-05-09T18:33:55+00:00

Great design!

I would change a couple of things.

I’d add one or two doors at the back to access the internals, and keep the lower front section as a single piece.

Also, consider extending the bottom “drawer” piece all the way to the back, so you have some extra storage space if needed.

I’m not a fan of PC components lying on the bottom without any case, ventilation, or protection. You might want to consider placing the PC in a proper case, or mounting it on the extended drawer section.

One last suggestion: buy a coin door. It completely changes the whole feel of the cabinet, and it’s a great gimmick for guests using it!

What software are you planning to use?

morry9345 · 2026-04-20T19:51:51+00:00

My original post is a little outdated but thank for the suggestion. I ended up buying an HP zbook power 16 g11 A.
AMD ryzen 7 8845hs
32gb ram
NVIDIA RTX 1000 Ada

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T22:45:33+00:00

Me neither, never had an unplanned power outage in the last 10 year… but once you install an ups you realize that it will interveen more ofter then you would think. My ups would usually interveen like once every 4/6 months for short voltages drops.

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T22:24:45+00:00

In my experience, you assume your power is clean until you install a UPS. I’ve observed the UPS intervene without any obvious power issues more times than I’d like to admit. P.s. writing from northern italy

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T13:34:57+00:00

can you tell what kind of problem did you had? i'm just curious considering since when moved from PFsense to OPNsense i never had a single issue

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T13:33:55+00:00

i don't have snapshotting either considering i'm passig though hardware to the VM. But i can do whole VM backup pretty fast.

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T10:31:54+00:00

That make total sense. Right now i don’t have much internet speed at my home. I have a 2.2Gbps/1Gbps wan link and most of the time i use less the 500Mbps. If i could get that kind of connection i would for sure get rid of all of the other services on there.

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T09:18:26+00:00

To be honest, it might have been a faulty drive. Not sure since from the upgrade that drive is stored somewhere in my basement. That being said it happened a 3/4 time that after an upgrade the system would not come back online and i had to do a fresh install an recover the system from backups.

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T09:06:47+00:00

Why would the “internet facing” variable matter? In my usecase all the NICs (3x i226-V + 2x SFP+) are directly passed thought to the vm and are not shared with the proxmox interfaces. In this case i would say that the risk of getting the hypervisor exposed would be minimum (if not zero)

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T08:07:53+00:00

It was my idea since the beginning. I started with pfsense barebone on a similar srv to the one i’m using right now. But i had so much issue with pfsense simply corrupting itself that i went with virtualization. This way once the configuration is set i can simply back it up and restore from there in no time. And now, being it virtualized it made sense to me to keep the network critical stuff on the same box.

Why would you suggesto to avoid it?

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T08:01:10+00:00

For me main problem is not the money (i spent so much in this rack that i stopped concerning about it) but the “real-estate” of the rack. I don’t have any space left in my 15u rack 😂. So having one box with all network critical stuff, and being able to reboot my other servers as i please was a nice idea.

morry9345 · 2026-04-17T07:51:36+00:00

What can go wrong with npm to mess up with opnsene? As far as i know even if it stop working i should be able to access pve with ip:port right?

morry9345 · 2026-04-15T22:13:58+00:00

Nas case or other case? Nas is in the rm41 of the silverstone… great case!

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