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What service one should NOT self host (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by SuperWill5633@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Like the title says, I'm new to self hosting world. πŸ˜€ while I was researching, I found out that many people dissuaded me to self host email server. Just too complicated and hard to manage. What other services that you think we should just go use the currently available providers in the market and why? πŸ™‚thank you

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[–] Kila_Bite@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Plex. Despite everything be supposedly self hosted, they are spying on what you're watching and sharing that info with 3rd parties, your friends and your family.

Use Kodi instead or if you're old school like me, an old fashioned smb share running on a pi.

[–] Richmondez@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with the sentiment but Kodi isn't really a direct replacement for a plex server, it's a client replacement. You want Jellyfin or at least a mysql backend for Kodi to get the shared watched status and such.

[–] linkthepirate@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Or just one of the alts like Emby or Jellyfin.

[–] ficskala@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't aware you could do something like this on kodi, i remember it being basically just a client for viewing content, not a web based server