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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!
Any reason for switching? I am pretty happy with Plex, espcially how my friends can just open it and play my stuff.
Can't speak to OP's reasons, and I am currently torn whether to switch over to jellyfin or not. I am currently running both Plex and Jellyfin side by side with the same media libraries.
I am annoyed by the fact that Plex requires that you log in and authenticate against Plex's own servers to view your own media. I know technically you can set up local access if Plex's servers are not available, but you don't get user account restrictions, watch history, etc when you are not able to authenticate against Plex's servers. If I have an experience that is that degraded, then I consider the service useless unless you are able to access Plex's servers.
Plex's recommendations are stupid and annoying. I am running Plex because I want an easy way to enjoy my own media. The other night, my wife was looking to watch a TV series that I have on my Plex server, which I have watched from my server in the past. When she searched for it, Plex was attempting to get her to watch the series on Hulu (a service that not only do we not subscribe to, but is not even available in our country). We ended up having to browse our TV Library to find it since no search I did would find it.
Plex's recent moves toward monitization are concerning. I understand that Plex is a private company and needs to make money. I am not a fan of the way that they appear to be doing it. It seems like Plex likely will (if they are not already) sell search and watch data to the bigger streaming giants. Maybe the gave away too many lifetime Plexpasses?
That's my two cents.
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.
How much did you pay for the mini PC?
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
Nice! :) thanks for the link!