May 17, 2024

Self-hosted media server goodness (Friends)

1 hour 43 minutes

Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the “perfect media server” and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen — LinuxServer.io, PerfectMediaServer.com, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, mergerfs, TrueNAS, Docker Compose and so much more in this episode.

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Alex Kretzschmar – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

blog.ktz.me

linuxserver.io

perfectmediaserver.com

ZFS is resource efficient.

selfhosted.show

The Best Media Server CPU… in the world.

A Cheap No-Frills OPNsense box

mergerfs

The beginning of linuxserver.io

jimsalterjrs/sanoid

Jellyfin

Plex

Restic

Auto-Restic

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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