Yesterday, 02:32 PM
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!
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!