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Depending on what services you want to give access with, I have had great luck with an ultra cheap VPS

https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

Then I host my edge services on a container and use an ssh tunnel to the remote host which gives me an ipv4 and any port forward that I want.

For example I have my reverse proxy inside my network and my VPN server then I use a command like:

ssh -R 8080:localhost:80 public.example.com

Which would forward publicip:8080 to localhost:80

Read more here: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/tunneling-example.

I use autossh to keep the tunnel alive at all times.

https://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/

This is an ultra cheap way to get any ports you want and self host the whole thing. The remote VPS also doesn’t get any extra access to your local network and doesn’t initiate the connection so it doesn’t have credentials for your local network

Really I think we are going to see an increase in jellyfin uptake given the changes which is great for that project

But if you don’t already have lifetime and are paying monthly or annually then that price is also almost doubling

My suggestion is to migrate the server to the Java edition and use one of the projects that support plugins like paper or purpur.

After that install geysermc, floodgate, viaversion, and viabackwards plugins.

https://geysermc.org/download https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaVersion https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaBackwards

This lets people connect to the Java server from bedrock clients and it gives some flexibility in the specific version used to connect to the server.

This way you can use whatever official or questionable version of the Minecraft server client.

Migrating the world might require a special tool like chunker.

https://www.chunker.app/

Once your on the Java edition client all kinds of options open up for you in terms of plugins and options should you wish.

The geysermc plugin supports extensions as well one I recommend is:

https://github.com/MCXboxBroadcast/Broadcaster

This one let’s you add an Xbox friend that you can join from most bedrock clients super easily.