Seeking Solutions for Jellyfin Server Metadata Storage

[Maxy TV]

Hello! How is everyone doing? I've been running my Jellyfin server hosted on an OVH VPS for quite some time now, and I'm really happy with the results.

However, the VPS has limited storage capacity, which poses a problem for hosting movie and series metadata. All the videos I host are .strm files, so they occupy less than 1KB. That's good.

Therefore, I wanted to know if there's any way to avoid hosting the metadata on the VPS. Having it hosted directly by me is a problem because, in addition to using up my VPS bandwidth (which has low Mbps), it's also consuming a lot of storage space.
Is there no way for the server to directly retrieve images and metadata from TMDB, IMDB, or any other source?

Another option that could work would be to host it in the cloud and mount a network drive with rclone, but again, that still consumes my bandwidth.

Thank you very much for your help.

[mcarlton00]

It's going to use storage, or it's going to use bandwidth. Pick your poison.

Jellyfin aims to be fully capable of running in offline mode with no internet connection. Directly relying on upstream metadata providers to provide images in real time is the exact opposite of this, and would undoubtedly result in a worse user experience because of the extra processing time required to request them from the providers in real time. Not to mention the immense increase in bandwidth from thousands of redundant network requests, both for users and the metadata providers.

[Maxy TV]

Thank you for the help, the thing precisely is that my server is on a VPS, so I will definitely need internet access to reach it, it's more cost-effective than keeping my PC running, and I also share it with family members.

I'll probably opt for a folder in the cloud and store the .strm files and metadata there; it will consume bandwidth, but at least not my limited disk space.