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Self-hosted media server goodness (Changelog & Friends #44)
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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Featuring:
- Alex Kretzschmar – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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!