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I am considering Jellyfin on a VPS host so securing it is a concern (though not a major one; I basically grok reverse proxies/nginx etc)
Interested in your observations as a user and admin
Different person but it's really not a big deal. I've created a username for my friends, and they for me on theirs. Easy as pie.
I keep a local backup just in case something happens, just setup vps again and go. I use nginx to force https, and go. I've also limited to US, Canadian, and U.K. ips only so pretty much never see unusual activity trying to access it (if I ever share with someone elsewhere I'll whitelist their specific IP).
I'm also running full IPv6 which just worked.
Edited to add: I only share with trusted friends who I know won't two and delete the database or something. Just use basic security and you're good.
oooh why didn't I think of that? Imma do the same for some of my selfhost VPS (such as the abovementioned Funkwhale). I have friends in US/UK/Canada but as it turns out none in, eg China or Russia, which is like 85%+ of malicious connection attempts
I was hosting behind nginx for a while, however recently switched to tailscale VPN. The reasoning was less to do with security (though that's a fine bonus), and more to do with the fact that I couldn't get split DNS resolution working very well. As in, use one address while on LAN but a different address when I'm away from home, mostly relevant on my phone. I was getting frustrated with that and Tailscale just works really well once it's set up.