I’ve run mine as a VM for several years now. I haven’t noticed any appreciable impact on performance vs bare metal. I am able to max out my 1000/40 WAN.

That being said, the platform you use to virtualize it on will have an impact. I am running mine on a 3 node proxmox cluster with 10gig networking and SSD backed Ceph storage, so my benchmarks for performance grossly outweigh what my WAN bandwidth can accommodate.

Audiobookshelf is what your wanting then. It does exactly that, and even has a mobile client.

• laughs in Texas *

We use RoyalTS and I’ve been very happy with it. I’ve used mRemoteNG and Mobaxterm in the past, and there really isn’t much that would have me switch back. Plus, it supports plenty of other protocols besides SSH, so more of our teams can leverage it.

Between 3 switches, 4 servers, and my desktop also using one of my UPS units, I average about 850w, with peaks up to 1.1kw when my desktop is running. Luckily, electricity where I live is only 13cents/kwh.

It’s been done to death because memes from Australia will kill you…