I was considering a VPS! That said, if I’m say, accessing my jellyfin library externally through a VPS, wouldn’t that just end up costing ludicrous amounts of money?
Depends on your usage, but probably not? If you can transcode on your jellyfin server you’ll be able to serve lower quality versions remotely if you want to save bandwidth… But most VPS’s provide around a terabyte of bandwidth per month by default. If you use more it will cost more. I think it’s usually fairly cheap to get more, but if you’re the only one accessing it you’re probably not going to use that much. Like if you rip a blu-ray you might end up streaming a 50gb or so file for a movie, but that’s only a twentieth of the bandwidth allotted to you (roughly)… Plus if you reencode it to something smaller before putting it on your jellyfin server, or if your jellyfin server can transcode fast enough you can send a smaller video stream to your mobile devices or whatever.
I don’t use Arch btw ;)
I don’t either, that article was just what I found that mentioned setting up Tunnelbroker with a dynamic IP.