I tried this for the first time a few days ago and it seems pretty good.
If you hold the selection button on a movie/show theres an option to “Play with transcoding” which helped solve a lot of problems for me when playing things on older hardware in situations where the official Jellyfin app would incorrectly try to direct play content that actually wasnt compatible.
I run Opnsense in a VM in proxmox and I passthrough an Intel X540 (2x 10Gb NIC) card into it. I have 5Gb fibre and i get that full speed on Opnsense. The CPU is an Intel N100 and I never see any CPU spikes.
I’ve had it setup for a few years now and I’ve had no issues with it.
Set up Uptime Kuma on the VPS to monitor services there. Uptime Kuma can send you a notification if any of them become unresponsive.
Then use Healthchecks.io to monitor the VPS itself and Uptime Kuma.
You can set up to 20 monitors on the free tier with healthchecks.io.
Its a push monitor, so if the VPS/Uptime Kuma doesnt reach out to say its alive within the designated time interval you’ll get a notification, like a sort of dead man switch.
Theres a load of notification options for both healthchecks and Uptime Kuma including email, discord, ntfy, etc, etc.
This way you have no need for a seperate self hosted server, and you get healthchecks on yo healthchecks.
Now try migrating all your docker containers to podman.
Why do you need yet-another-separate app?
To keep your two factor codes and passwords separate in the event that your password manager is breached.
Also if you need a 2FA code to log into your password manager, how are you going to get it if its in the password manager that you can’t log into without the 2FA code inside it?
When you start playing something, go into the admin dashboard on another machine and click the “i” and see if its trying to software transcode instead of hardware transcode, or does it say its direct playing?
How are you running the Jellyfin server? As your own docker container or installed as a docker container in something like Unraid?
If its a container then it needs access to the GPU (eg, --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri, or whatever device your GPU appears as), and if its installed in Unraid it needs access to the gpu, intel-gpu-top needs to be installed, and the Jellyfin container also needs a docker mod called “opencl-intel”.