I just finished setting up my own Jellyfin server. Lately I’ve been getting into using open source software and this weekend I thought it would be nice to self host on an old thinkpad I had from my college days. There were a few roadblocks I encountered, but ultimately I got it working. Now with the Finamp/Jellyfin app I can have a Spotify/Netflix-like experience completely free (well minus the domain name cost). I highly recommend it if you have been thinking about doing it for a while like I was. I’m so glad we have open source software like Lemmy and Jellyfin available to us.
Edit: Thanks to everyone who suggested not using Cloudflare tunnels. I’m sure they would have got me eventually. I am now successfully running Jellyfin with Pangolin and couldn’t be happier.
My problem is that I don’t have a fixed IPv4 address and jot even a ‘real’ one (don’t ask, Germany Cable internet…). So if I am somewhere where I don’t have an IPv6 I cannot connect to it. I also did this via VPS to share with family without having them to set up wireguard etc.
Just by chance I was in your exact situation. I have Vodafone Kabel with theoretically only ipv4 over ipv6. If you ring them up and say you’re looking to set up port forwarding and you have a specific legacy application that needs an ipv4 address, like an MS-DOS server without a TCP6 stack, they have the ability to assign you an ipv4 address. I had to get passed to second level support for them to do this though, but they ended up doing it for me for no additional cost! Try it out and viel Erfolg wünsche ich dir :-)
Thank you very much for that info :). I heard that some people had luck and others didn’t. Will try it out at some point. For Jellyfin I still prefer the VPS though so I don’t have to open a port.