I have a jellyfin instance running with radarr/sonarr/… for my media needs on my vps.

Problem is that I don’t have huge amount of storages and I would like to expand the storage until I’m able to make a personal server ( I don’t have space where I live for even a mini pc rn ).

From the options that I have been considering the contabo ( my vps provider ) storage expansion are quite costly so I have been thinking about hetzner storage boxes or a backblaze b2 bucket mounted with rclone/s3fs.

The problem with backblaze is that I use hardlinks with my *arr suite so to save up on space so I’m not sure if I can mount them preserving the hard links.

What would be your thought or reccomendation? Should I get a hetzner storage box and just mount it or is there anything else I could do until I manage to make my own personal server?

  • @oranki@sopuli.xyz
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    115 months ago

    Most likely, a Hetzner storage box is going to be so slow you will regret it. I would just bite the bullet and upgrade the storage on Contabo.

    Storage in the cloud is expensive, there’s just no way around it.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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      25 months ago

      I will most likelly just do that in the end.

      Relly hope god will have mercy on me and allow me to move out soon to a bigger place.

    • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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      15 months ago

      Why do you say that? I use it for my 12+ TB library and it works fine. I’m on the west coast USA, and my vps and storage box are on the east coast.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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      85 months ago

      I’m most likelly the only one among my friends who even own’s a smartphone/pc ( I live in Croatia in countryside where tech is seen as evil )

  • Cyclohexane
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    55 months ago

    Be careful that sometimes these providers will shut you down for hosting media servers. Even if your content is not illegally obtained.

  • Archy
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    35 months ago

    Not sure if this fits your needs but I bought a NAS and mounted it via NFS4 over tailscale to my cloud. Yes, it is slower, but I got 20TB in the cloud

      • Archy
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        25 months ago

        Yes. When loading small images - there is no noticeable difference between local and NAS. When loading videos or large pics - there is about a 2 sec lag, then the video plays normally. I have a 500/500 Mb internet at home and on the VPS side I think it’s a few Gbps. I am consistently pulling minimum 200 Mbps between the two. I set a mount option ,nofail so that my OS boots up when NAS is down/unreachable, and my container also starts up fine with the NAS down, but won’t play its content obviously

    • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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      15 months ago

      Where I live I don’t have space for evem a rpi4. So the first I need to do is move out of my current home.

  • @Chobbes@lemmy.world
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    35 months ago

    Running Jellyfin off of a VPS provider seems needlessly expensive. I guess server hardware has an upfront cost, but having real hardware to host it on at home will be far more cost effective long term, especially for storage.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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      15 months ago

      I’m at my home. And barelly have space for a rpi4 so not an option for me till I move out.

  • @hottari@lemmy.ml
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    35 months ago

    HEVC releases. You can also setup Jellyfin to selectively prune media you’ve already watched.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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      45 months ago

      I’m already going with them, guess I will either buy more storage or limit what I have on it.

      (I can’t have jellyfin prune media I have watched cause seeding )

        • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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          5 months ago

          Still ocupies the same amount of space, a hardlink just makes it so that if you remove the origin file the link is removed at the same time, bht you can emove it in jellyfin but it will take the same amoun of space.

          Edit: either way can’t have jellyfin delete media because I don’t want it to accidentlally remove stuff from ptt’s

          • netburnr
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            25 months ago

            You could stop using torrents. Usenet doesn’t require you to see, so you just download what you want, watch, and delete.

            • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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              15 months ago

              I thought of that but don’t know how to get started at all.

              Got any guides for that?

              • netburnr
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                25 months ago

                Get a usenet provider. There are many to choose from and there are comparison sites out there. I use cheapness because it gives me a second limited connection to another provider, this helps to make sure everything I want is available by using two possible sources.

                Get a nzb indexer, there are some that are preset in rather sonarr and radar screens. Some of them have paid plans that let you do more searches per day.

                Configure your arr programs just like you did with torrents.

                • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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                  15 months ago

                  Yea already done most of it, now just testing out how much stuff it will be able to download from what I want.

          • @hottari@lemmy.ml
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            5 months ago

            You asked for a solution for removing unneeded media files while keeping the linked torrents. I gave you one.

            • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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              5 months ago

              i literally said that I can’t delete files because I need to seed.

  • ChojinDSL
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    25 months ago

    Do you have a NAS at home with enough storage? You could use wireguard to setup a vpn tunnel, then mount your NAS’s storage on your vps via nfs and using cachefilesd. If your upload speed is sufficient, this can work pretty well without too much waiting for a stream to start.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPA
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      5 months ago

      I don’t have anything at home. I barelky have space for a laptop.

      I’m literally in my home, just that my home is small af.