I got Jellyfin up and running, itโ€™s 10/10. I love this thing, and it reinvigorated my love for watching movies. So I decided to tackle all the other services I wanted, starting with Paperless-ngxโ€ฆ

What a nightmare. It doesnโ€™t have a Windows install so I made an Ubuntu VM. Donโ€™t get me started on Ubuntu. I just spent about 12hrs trying to get Portainer to cooperate and had to give up. I tried just installing Paperless the โ€œnormal wayโ€ and had to give up on that too.

My point: if youโ€™re getting started selfhosting you have to embrace and accept the self-inflicted punishment. Good luck everybody, I donโ€™t know if I can keep choosing to get disappointed.

Edit: good news! Almost everything I wanted to do is covered by Jellyfin which can be done in Windows.

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context

Selfhosted

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

Create post

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you donโ€™t control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: weโ€™re here to support and learn from one another. Insults wonโ€™t be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If itโ€™s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Donโ€™t duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (donโ€™t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

Community stats

  • 3.5K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.3K

    Posts

  • 71K

    Comments