Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by thrown-0825 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @04:48AM (#44845011)

Yeah everyone who runs a home lab that others use will eventually run into this.

Having a uptime SLA for your "hobby" is a huge pain in the ass and absolutely sucks the fun out of it.

For me it was the constant requests for new media or midnight complaints about jellyfin being down.

If you want to learn infra ops just get a job in the field and get paid for it.

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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by bombcar on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:30AM (#44846008)

I’ve never had jellyfin + infuse go down, and it’s been a lifesaver when the power’s up and Internet down.

But yeah; things with SLAs are probably better off not self-hosted unless you really enjoy midnight fixes.

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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by thrown-0825 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:34AM (#44846027)

ive had issues with it chewing up all available cpu when it encounters corrupted files or a codec it doesnt recognize

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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by bombcar on Saturday August 09, 2025 @12:59PM (#44848129)

Ah, that explains it. I handbrake everything into something that needs no reencoding for infuse to consume.

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