This video helped me most. I’m a visual learner so it was easier for me to follow this instead of a written guide. Just be careful when you are following along tutorials (especially those written more than ~9 months ago) because the majority use syntax for OpenSSL 1.1.1 but that version is now EOL. You will need to use OpenSSL 3.x syntax as it’s the currently supported version of OpenSSL.

It’s a shame really. It’s not critical for gameplay but it would have been a great immersive experience.

Oh sorry I thought you had used it before. I’ll take a closer look and see what I can. Thanks for looking tho

And you’ve used this with a game (or Elite)?

Looks like this is the engine but you’d still have to the “rest of the car” together on your own. Am I reading that right?

It’s not working because it is against Cloudflare’s ToS unfortunately.

First I would ask, do you really have to make Jellyfin publicly accessible?

If yes, are you able to setup a VPN (i.e. Wireguard) and access Jellyfin through that instead?

If you don’t want the VPN route then isolate the NPM and Jellyfin instance from the rest of your server infrastructure and run the setup you described (open ports directly to the NPM instance). That is how most people that don’t want to do Cloudflare are running public access to self hosted services. But first, ask yourself the questions above.

This is the only thing keeping me from moving everything from PhotoPrism to Immich. I have over 40,000 objects (photos and videos) on my server already. If I could somehow get immich up and going on and have immich “recognize” this giant directory of objects without having to reupload everything, I would switch tonight.

Honestly what really matters (imo) is that you do offsite storage. Cloud, a friends house, your parents, your buddy’s NAS, whatever. Just get your data away from your “production/main” site.

For me, I chose cloud for two main reason. First, convenience. I could use a tool to automate the process of moving data offsite in a reliable manner thus keeping my offsite backups almost identical to my main array and easy retrieval should I need it. Second, I don’t really have family or friends nearby and/or with the hardware to support my need for offsite storage.

There are lots of pros and cons of each, let alone add your specific needs and circumstances on top of it.

If you can use the additional drives later on in your main array, some other server or a different purpose then it may be worth while exploring the drives (my concern would be ease of keeping offsite data up to par with main data). If you don’t like it for one reason or the other, you can always repurpose the drives and give cloud storage a try. Again, the important thing is to do it in the first place (and encrypt it client side).

Well here’s my very abbreviated conclusion (provided I remember the details appropriately) when I did the research about 3 months ago.

Wasabi - okay pricing, reliable, s3 compatible, no charges to retrieve my data, pay for 1tb blocks (wasn’t a fan of this one), penalty for data retrieval prior to a “vesting” period (if I remember correctly, you had to leave the data there for 90 days before you could retrieve it at no cost. Also not a big fan of this one)

AWS - I’m very familiar with it due to my job, pricing is largely influenced by access requirements (how often and how fast do I want to retrieve my data), very reliable, s3, charges for everything (list, read, retrieve, etc). This is the real killer and largely unaccounted cost of AWS.

Backblaze - okay pricing, reliable, s3 compliant, free retrieval of data up to the same amount that you store with them (read below), pay by the gig (much more flexible than Wasabi). My heartburn with Backblaze was that retrieval stipulation. However, they have recently increased it to free up to 3x of what you store with them which is super awesome and made my heartburn go away really quickly.

I actually chose Backblaze before the retrieval policy change and it has been rock solid from the start. Works seamlessly with the vast majority of utilities that can leverage s3 compliant storage. Pricing wise, I honestly don’t think it’s that bad

Hope this helps

I’m currently using Backblaze. I also researched Wasabi and AWS.

Can’t speak for those but I tried Kopia and it did the job okay. Ultimately tho I landed on rclone.

Lots of answers in the comment about this particular storage type/vendor. Regardless, to answer your original question, rclone. Hands down. If you spend 30-60 minutes actually reading their documentation, you are set and understand so much more of what’s going on under the hood.

I’m not the one saying “FreeCAD sucks”, its sprinkled throughout this entire post. My comment/questions was related to saying “okay so if FreeCAD “sucks” and fusion360 is pulling the rug on us, what else is out there that is comparable and as useful as fusion360”

Okay so Fusion360 money grab, FreeCAD bad alternative, what’s left (legitimate question)???

Awesome write up! Sounds like an interesting contender!

Didn’t even know

Absolutely agree! Just pointing it out in case OP runs into a registrar that doesn’t offer this

Fair point. I failed to mentioned features in my previous comment. Things like WHOIS Privacy are essential to me and I imagine it is for most of us (self hosters)

In my opinion it really comes down to support, price (first year and renewal) and ethics.

For the ethics piece, if you think Google is an evil company then avoid Google Domains, as an example.

I would like to take this for a spin although I see two install methods, flatpak and appimage? Any recommendations here? Seems like both are on par as far as versions go

Looks interesting, do you use the AppImage or Flatpak install method?