For work, Tailscale between vps and server. It works like cloudflare tunnels but doesn’t have the issues with the TOS excluding media streaming etc.

Keeps the internal server relatively safe and we can stream media/serve media content.

Cloudflare is our registrar and dns provider.

Until you need to actually restore a project consisting of multiple TB and it would have been cheaper to get a local backup server.

I work in a TV production company. Masters and rushes are archived to LTO8.

Drives are cheap but a real pain to keep around and you can’t keep them indefinitely.

But you’ll likely want a library. These are expensive. Not necessarily to buy, but to license and get tot software. I think our entire system, (library, 2xlto8 drives, server, software and licenses cost 15-20k)

And we only licensed 25 out of the 50slots. As it’s a real fucker as you have to license the slots twice, once on the library and again in the archive software.

But it’s been an absolute godsend, having archive projects available makes life so much easier.

You can get a a VPS with unlimited bandwidth, I use IONOS at work, it’s a 500mb connection on their end (1gig at work) we have multiple people streaming video/downloading files without issue.

It is generally cheaper to pay for hosting if that’s all you’re doing.

You don’t need a GPU to host a server, just a decent cpu and a decent amount of RAM.

I’m not sure how well it works hosting on the same pc as you’re gaming on. I’d expect it would lower performance for both to some degree.

You can use a power calculator to get a rough estimate of the costs.

For example, a pc running 24 hours a day at 0.30/kwh using 150w would cost just under 30 per month.

You are absolutely, categorically not allowed to use Plex or jellyfin or any other media streaming app on cloudflare tunnels unless you are a paid customer hosting your media in cloudflare R2.

Technically I don’t think you’re even allowed to host something like Immich u less your images are stored on R2.

That being said, I haven’t yet heard of anyone having their account banned for doing so.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what you are trying to achieve. And are over complicating things which is confusing everyone.

It would help greatly if you could give some indication of what containers you actually want to use.

From the sounds of it you want a file server which is your nas. Then you want to run an application in a docker container on your Linux machine.

Using Plex as an example, you would mount your Plex directories on your Linux server via NFS, then start the Plex container pointing at the mounted directory on the Linux server.

Nothing would run on your nas apart from the nfs file server.

The image you linked looks a bit more like a distributed worker. I use something similar where one server runs the core services and then I run specific workers on multiple other machines to distribute and increase the processing power. I don’t believe this is what you want to do as if it was, you would probably know it.