ubuntu server for plex

[leigh_boy]

a little story first, i have a dell Server running ESXI in my loft.
i have several vm's i was using 1 vm for remote access and plex, im now enabled WOL for my home pc so will just wake it up when i want to use it.
so the vm (win 8.1) that was also running plex appeared to be using 90W of energy and it was also all over the place with performance so today i got rid of the windows vm and put in place a ubuntu server enabled SSH installed plex and enabled samba and made a few firewall changes and it seems to be ok be surprisingly when its idling its only using 4w and on load 40w so a great saving on energy long term, now im no linux expert so can any 1 suggest any security i should do to this vm and or anything extra i could use it for? thanks

 

[Steveocee]

Iptables firewall and you'll be fine. Is it behind NAT?

 

[leigh_boy]

Iptables firewall and you'll be fine. Is it behind NAT?

it is natted and works fine. i added the ports t the firewall on ubunto and only openend the 1 port for plex to register on the plex.tv site

 

[Steveocee]

Security wise you should be fine then. Additional features wise you can turn it to most things. Torrent box with Transmission, CCTV monitoring, team speak server. Not so much what can it do, more what do you want it to do?

 

[liamcrane]

I tend to use ufw instead of ip tables

 

[leigh_boy]

i did use UFW although i am not familiar with the differences.

 

[Steveocee]

I don't think theres much in it. Not sure how adept with CLI you may be but if you struggle with the firewalls try installing Webmin and you can manage it through a GUI

 

[leigh_boy]

ah yes web min, i have used that before, id rather learn the cli and go gui if i get really stuck

 

[Steveocee]

ah yes web min, i have used that before, id rather learn the cli and go gui if i get really stuck

My feelings exactly but a couple of things I just couldnt be bothered with due to needing it done quickly. (IPtables and RAID being 2)