Using ProxMox has been extremely useful for me. It has allowed me to experiment with a lot more things than I ever did before—it is very easy to spin up a new VM to test things out.

I would recommend it to anyone running a home server.

Watchtower may be what you’re looking for.

I was the original appreciator! Gluetun is life! Gluetun is truth! Gluetun is the way!

I’m so glad this post helped somebody!

Indeed! There are many simple and quality ways to set it up, and users can pick anything they prefer. FOSS is dope like that.

I think the questions are more prominent because a wider audience of people are becoming more privacy conscious.

In my case, I haven’t had the advantage of going to school for any of this, so I have to pick up knowledge where I can. If there is a reliable tool available to accomplish my task, I’m more likely to use it than to pursue a more manual solution because even simple computing questions can be rabbit holes that result in hours of reading and learning.

The reason that I made this post is because your options are always limited by your awareness of available solutions, and I presumed there might be someone else out there who has struggled getting a VPN reliably bound to a service.

https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/

They’ve gone up a little, but they’re starting at $11 per year.

Are you using Nginx to make your app available on the web? If you are on a home internet connection, how confident are you that your ISP has given you a static IP?

Running Nginx and Tailscale to route traffic through a VPS with a static IP has been way more reliable for me than any attempt at static IP hosting from a home connection in the past. At $5-$15 per year, a VPS is cheaper than the hassle of troubleshooting with an ISP at home.

Maybe I’m just dense, but how is that done? I don’t see anything in tautulli settings, and I don’t see any plugin scripts for it.

I have really enjoyed Kavita. There are a few things that are still a little rough around the edges, but it is a project with a lot of potential.

Reinstalling the machine from scratch is the impulse I’m trying to grow out of!

Didn’t end up needing to add —volumes. -a did the trick.

Thanks, this worked perfectly!

Ooh, that’s pretty. Thanks for the suggestion!

That’s what I was planning to do to configure it. Glad to hear that was the right plan.

And I’ll definitely check out homepage—thank you so much for your reply!

Have you tried the docker version? Works perfectly for me. Here’s my docker config if you want to give it a shot:

sudo docker run -d
–name=kavita
-e PUID=1000
-e PGID=1000
-e TZ=YOUR/TIMEZONE
-p 5000:5000
-v path/to/kavita/config/:/config
-v path/ro/kavita/ebooks/:/data
–restart unless-stopped
lscr.io/linuxserver/kavita:latest

Edit the time zone and volume paths as needed. You can just make a new volume for config and it will fill it with settings stuff, and then point the data volume to the folder with your ebooks.

The ebooks themselves need to be sorted a little differently depending on if they are PDF’s, ePub, or comics, but it isn’t to hard once you get the hang of it. Basically ePub likes to be in a subfolder and PDF likes to be in the root folder for some reason, otherwise it puts the PDF’s in a collection named after the subfolder.

Overall, I’ve been really happy with Kavita and think it has a lot of potential, especially as an ebook extension of Plex since the layout is nearly identical.

Thanks, I will have to do some googling about that today.

Are jellyfin accounts handled through their own account system like Plex?

Over the years, as I’ve learned more and gotten better at things, I’ve occasionally had the need to try new Linux distros or remake a VM to fix a bigger problem that I’m not skilled enough to detangle yet. I could probably get away with backups and restores now, but Plex’s account management has saved my butt several times over the years, so I figured it was worth checking to see if there was something similar out there.

Another thing with bookstack is that if your local IP changes for any reason, it breaks all the images and it is pretty frustrating to get them working again. They added a command to try to fix this, but I could never get it to work correctly.

I ended up switching to wiki.js and haven’t had a single problem since, but I do miss the super sleek look of bookstack sometimes.