Jellyfin is an elegant, user-supported media system designed to put you in complete control of your media collection. It does not contain any hidden tracking, premium subscription gates, or forced ads.
Why Host Jellyfin?
- No Paywalls: Unlike Plex, features like hardware-accelerated video transcoding, offline downloads, and custom user profiles are 100% free and unlocked by default.
- Privacy First: Jellyfin doesn’t dial home or track your viewing habits. Your data and viewing history stay entirely on your private server.
- Broad Device Support: Stream beautiful, high-definition content to your web browser, Android/iOS devices, Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, or Apple TV using their official client applications.
Getting Started
Jellyfin can be easily hosted using Docker or installed directly as a service. When hosted on a virtual machine, it can index your local folders or mount custom DigitalOcean block storage volumes for massive media libraries!