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RE: VPS recommendations/ OS recommendations - DariaVPS - 2025-06-19
Hey, ISP port blocking is the worst - congrats on joining the VPS life
For Jellyfin with 5-7 users and 4–-TB of media, aim for 2–4 CPU cores, from 4GB RAM, and local SSD storage. CPU is king here since it handles the transcoding. Linux is totally fine - Jellyfin runs great on Debian/Ubuntu and saves you the Windows overhead. If you can follow a guide (and it sounds like you can), go Linux all day long.
As for storage - mounting remote storage works, but can get laggy under load. Local SSD is smoother and way faster for streaming. If you want to check out a solid starting point without getting lost in the weeds: https://vps.one/vps-server
Start small, test it out, then scale up if needed. You got this!
RE: VPS recommendations/ OS recommendations - ani_fati - 2025-10-01
For Jellyfin with 5–7 users, focus on CPU (at least 2–4 cores) and bandwidth over huge RAM—2–4 GB is usually fine unless you transcode heavily. A Linux VPS (https://www.greenwebpage.com/vpshosting.php) is definitely cheaper and more efficient than Windows. For storage, built-in SSD/NVMe is fastest, but mounting external/cheap storage can work if latency isn’t an issue—just avoid very slow network storage if you want smooth playback.