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Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby are the three leading self-hosted media server platforms — each...

Icecast is a lightweight, open-source streaming server purpose-built for audio — ideal for...

Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server — a fully self-hosted alternative to Plex or...

Navidrome is a lightweight, self-hosted music streaming server — giving you a Spotify-like...

PeerTube is a decentralized, open-source video hosting platform — letting you run your own...

Plex is a widely-used media server platform offering a polished interface and broad device...

Video is the heaviest content type most sites serve — routing delivery through a CDN...

A media server often contains personal content and, if compromised, could expose your library or...

A well-organized, correctly-tagged media library makes automatic metadata matching (posters,...

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) delivers video by breaking it into small segments served over standard...

Nginx's RTMP module lets you run your own live video streaming server — accepting a stream...

If your actual media files live on a home NAS or computer but you want reliable, secure remote...

FFmpeg is the essential tool for converting, resizing, and re-encoding video — the...

OBS Studio is the most widely-used free broadcasting software — this guide covers...

Media streaming has genuinely different resource demands than most other VPS workloads —...