Looking for advice on my media server stack
reddit / selfhosted

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Inkfartman · 2023-12-29 01:20

I'm new to self hosting and I'm currently in the process of setting up
an unraid system to use as a automated media server. Its mostly going
to be used by my family and a few close friends, so I'll need to set
up some sort of reverse proxy solution which I still have to look
into.

Here's a rough diagram of my stack that I've created so far based on
research I've been doing online.

https://preview.redd.it/k3ymdqeqx49c1.png?width=921&format=png&auto=we
bp&s=3b974dfebdf2e60ac81368fcb70af5f9a928fd24

Please let me know if you guys have any advice on how I can improve my
setup or if there's any aspects I'm missing.


Bonus question: what are the best solutions for file backup/sync and
photo sync for non tech savvy family members? So far I've seen that
Nextcloud and PhotoPrism could be good options.

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Square_Lawfulness_33 · 2023-12-29 02:33

VPN+VPS(virtual private server). Starting at $6 you can get a virtual
server from Digitalocean on which you will run docker and containers
such as nginx proxy manager and wg-easy(wireguard + gui). Your home
server will be the client and nginx proxy manager will see your
services through the VPNs ip addresses. You will also need a domain
name if you don’t already have one which you can get from namecheap.
From there you’ll point your domain at Digitalocean DNS server and in
nginx proxy manager you can assign SSL(https) certificates to your
services.

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Inkfartman · 2023-12-29 04:12

Thanks for the information I have a few domains, I'll look into
setting up a VPS

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Square_Lawfulness_33 · 2023-12-29 04:22

forgot to mention, don't run your download client through the VPN
connect to the VPS. on the $6 monthly plan you only get 1tb of
internet throughput. 2tb on the $12 monthly plan. so you might want to
connect the services you want to access remotely through a VPN
container like gluetun, so that only those service's traffic are using
the limited internet access of the VPS.

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stardarrkit · 2023-12-29 07:36

I just put together a \[starter
kit\](https://github.com/stardarr/stardarr) for homelab newbies that
includes a Traefik reverse proxy and instructions for setting up
Cloudflare with it.


You should be able to pull out Traefik from the repo, and use my
existing services' labels as a guide.


CF instructions \[here\]([https://www.stardarr.dev/docs/Prerequisites/
Clouflare](https://www.stardarr.dev/docs/Prerequisites/Clouflare))


Hope this is helpful!

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Inkfartman · 2023-12-29 18:25

Thanks this is definitely super helpful. I'm using unraid and the
cloudflare ddns and traefik services are available in the community
apps store. This is probably the simplest approach I've seen so far

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