Is keeping everything inside of a local “walled garden”, then exposing the minimum amount of services needed to a WireGuard VPN not sufficient?

There would be be no attack surface from WAN other than the port opened to WireGuard

StandardNotes for me

I try to balance things between what I find enjoyable/ worth the effort, and what ends up becoming more of a recurring headache

I have a somewhat dated (but decently specd) NUC running Proxmox, and it’s the backbone of my home lab. No issues to date.

I was using a WD PR4100, but I upgraded to a Synology RS1221+ and it’s been fantastic :)

I have a beefed up Intel NUC running Proxmox (and my self hosted services within those VMs) and a stand alone NAS that I mount on the necessary VMs via fstab.

I really like this approach, as it decouples my storage and compute servers.

4 currently with 8GB RAM and no pass through for transcoding (only direct play)

That’s a good point; My Virtualization server is running on a (fairly beefy) Intel NUC, and it has 2 eth ports on it. One is for management, and the other I plug my VLAN trunk into, which is where all the traffic is going through. I will limit the connection speed of the client that is pulling large video files in hopes the line does not saturate, and long term I’ll try to get a different box where I can separate the VLAN’s onto their own ports instead of gloming them all into one port.

Very nice of you to offer. I made a few changes (routing my problem Jellyfin client directly to the Jellyfin server and cutting out the NGINX hop, as well as limiting the bandwidth of that client incase the line is getting saturated).

I’ll try to report back if there’s any updates.

Good bot.

Good point. I just checked and streaming something to my TV causes IO delay to spike to like 70%. I’m also wondering if maybe me routing my Jellyfin (and some other things) through NGINX (also hosted on Proxmox) has something to do with it… Maybe I need to allocate more resources to NGINX(?)

The system running Proxmox has a couple Samsung Evo 980s in it, so I don’t think they would be the issue.

I typically prefer VM’s just because I can change the kernel as I please (containers such as LXC will use the host kernel). I know it’s overkill, but I have the storage/ memory to spare. Typically I’m at about 80% (memory) utilization under full load.

Yeah, I’ve been looking into it for some time. It seems to normally be an issue on the client side (Nvidia shield), the playback will stop randomly and then restart, and this may happen a couple times (no one really knows why, it seems). I recently reinstalled that server on a new VM and a new OS (Debian) with nothing else running on it, and the only client to seem to be able to cause the crash is the TV running the Shield. It’s hard to find a good client for Jellyfin on the TV it seems :(

Yeah, I contemplated mentioning it too, knowing I might come off as pedantic, but figured what the hell. Others must have noticed too, right?

Wait, If Windows is 96.21% and Linux is 1.96%, then MacOS is 1.83%?

Wouldn’t that make Linux 2nd place?

Join us; It’s fantastic.

I have a (beefy specd) Intel NUC that’s running Proxmox. A few of the VMs mount to my RS1221+ for things like media (Jellyfin), etc.

On Proxmox I run

• Jellyfin (media server)
• Home Assistant (home automation)
• PiHole (DNS)
• Ansible (For keeping everything up to date and applying bulk actions)
• NGINX Proxy Manager (so I can access things locally with a nice URL)
• VM to host my Discord bots
• Whoogle (Search engine)
• AMP game server

Probably missing a few, but that’s the jist

The safest (but not as convenient) way is to run a VPN, so that the services are only exposed to the VPN interface and not the whole world.

In pfsense I specify which services my OpenVPN connections can access (just an internal facing NGINX for the most part) and then I can just go to jellyfin.homelab, etc when connected.

Not as smooth as just having NGINX outward facing, but gives me piece of mind knowing my network is locked down

Happy to be here with you :)