I’ve been using tubesync and jellyfin for this for awhile and it works okay. The tubesync software is not the best, and the docker container made by the dev has way too much going on in it but it works.
I have tubesync set up to watch and auto download from certain channels and then I watch via jellyfin. There’s even a jellyfin YouTube metadata plugin if you want to set that up too.
Your network has a public IP address, your computer does not. You can either tell your router to send any requests to a certain port to your computers internal ip address or you can set up a virtual private network for your friends to connect to.
I would definitely recommend the virtual private network route as it is much more secure and safe than opening a port on your router. There are many guides online about how to do this part
They barely touched on the time and money spent managing bare metal. I’d imagine that 230k a year is gonna get a big ol dent in it when their assumption of “modern servers make maintenance needs much lower” turns out to be false.
All for not hosting in AWS but I want to see one of these articles put out actual numbers about what it looks like to run. I want the we are two years into this and have learned X, Y, and Z post. And one that isn’t written by DHH
Checkout gluetun, it does exactly what you want https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
Check out actual, I think you can get the automatic transaction ingestion with it
https://github.com/actualbudget/actual