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Doesn't that mean your jellyfin server is directly exposed to the Internet? The very thing everyone constantly warns against?
I'm still on Plex, one of my biggest hangups with JF is that the remote access is kludgy
It's been running on caddy + duckdns for 5 years or more now. I use a non standard jellyfin port for the port forwarding, so that probably helps. Also, there's probably an aspect of security by obscurity.