Proxmox or Ubuntu - Advice for a noob please.

[rautz]

So I have a 7th or 8th gen intel i7 that I am running ubuntu on.

My question:
I want to retire this computer and leave it to soley serve jellyfin(+ other services -- EDITED BY bitmap) to the local network and remote clients.

I am not very experienced with setting these environments up but am usually quite good at following online guides and noticing discrepancies where i go wrong.

My current setup is caddy+duckdns and jellyfin running on Ubuntu 24.04. WIth a paltry 2tb of storage.
GFX card isnt really upto spec - r7 370. 
My media is stored on 2 separate ssds / media drives connected to my computer "internally" i have room for one more SSD. - I dont think my mobo has m.2 slots so just have the 4 sata slots to work with.

I would like to tweak my setup from work where required which is why I looked at proxmox though I am not sure how technical the remote connection sequence gets(if at all) versus remote access to a jellyfin server. 

So basically as the subject header states, would I be better to get out of my comfort zone and go the proxmox route or is Ubuntu enough to continue down the path Im on taking into consideration Im likely to want access to the OS remotely from time to time as well as loggin in locally.

Hopefully someone that has used both can point me into what they think is the more beneficial of setups to work with.

One thing that might throw this all out of kilter is that if I REALLY love the system, I will end up scrapping everything and get a Arc B card and suitable CPU setup on purpose acquired hardware..... which begs the question, with arc b card and a CPU would I be better off having experience building a proxmox server or again would Ubuntu be capable and ideal for me.

[I-G-1-1]

Best is to follow the Proxmox route.

For the forum rules (https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-jellyfin-forum-rules) you cannot speak of *arr services in the Jellyfin forum.

[bitmap]

You could easily set up Wireguard as a tunnel back to your home network to SSH in. More layers of abstraction are more things to break. Using a VPN tunnel to home would be my preferred route. If you use docker, there's a wireguard container that makes things a snap.

[rautz]

so go dow the proxmox path and setup wireguard - does wireguard tunnel me back to my local network, then i ssh to proxmox
or does wireguard make a direct tunnel to the server itself????

my question is really alluding to, does that mean duckdns+caddy reverse proxy become unuseable for other remote clients in that instance?