Run a media server on a storage VPS?
A storage VPS holds terabytes cheaply, but can it stream them? Do the bandwidth arithmetic first, then split the library from the application.
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Jellyfin NVIDIA hardware transcoding in Docker
Give a Jellyfin container an NVIDIA GPU with Docker Compose, turn on NVENC and NVDEC, and prove the GPU is really transcoding with nvidia-smi.
Jellyfin on a VPS: stream your own media
Run Jellyfin in Docker on a VPS to stream your own library: block storage, media permissions, direct play vs CPU transcoding, and safe remote access.