Are these people you trust? I would do Jellyfin and expose it to them via tailscale. Might be annoying for them to have to run tailscale but no chance I'm serving media directly from my house.
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mostly yes, due to the topic and where the link will be shared i can't imagine there'll be any intentional bad actors, though there's always a chance. jellyfin would be perfect, but one of the most important collections is a series of periodicals/magazines that afaik aren't supported natively or by any plugin.
What format are they in? Jellyfin does support some of the common eBook formats. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/books
Check out ZeroTier or Tailscale. Either one of these options would be your best bet.
good idea, i'll check them out
I run Jellyfin for myself and I like it. It's certainly capable of supporting multiple user accounts with password login. Not sure if there's anything about it that would make it more or less secure than any other method. I would definitely consider giving friends and family free access, but everyone I know seems pretty content giving their money to the various streaming services. Oh well.
I'm trying to talk a lot of friends into using my. Jellyfin and even helped them set up tailscale and all that. But they keep going back to paying Netflix etc.
i love jellyfin, only thing holding me back from using it for this project is that it's very focused on video, and a huge part of the content i wanna share is text-based
Ah, okay. What about just a simple static webpage with a .onion address? Is your audience savvy enough to use Tor?
You probably just want NextCloud then
Maybe Plex or Emby?
If pre-built media server solutions doesn’t work for your use case, then you’d need to create a custom site.
For the most part, ISPs tends to care more about:
- Covering their butt legally — if they don’t know you’re engaging in anything like piracy, then it’s not really their concern; and
- Ensuring their network stability — if you’re within your contractual usage limits and not using disproportionate amount of traffic causing other customers problem, then your network security is your problem.
As such, as long as the intended sharing audience are limited to only people you trust, and you put the content behind authentication w/ encryption (I.E. https), no one other than the intended recipient would know what you’re sending over the wire. That is as long as none of your users leak their credentials/report you for the content you’re sharing… which, a media server solution wouldn’t protect you from either.
Unfortunately I don't have a single host solution (beyond a reverse proxied ftp). But I use plex to host music, audiobooks, movies and TV and Calibre, Calibre-web for text based materials.
Plex, expose port 32400, require encryption.